Or worse - if you’re like me, you spend 10 minutes after the joke to talk more about bears, koalas, marsupials, the entire evolution of bears, because they brought up what you thought was an interesting question.
Eh, she might have genuinely not realized that he’s attempting a joke. You do need to bring across in your voice+expression that you’re being humorous, otherwise it sounds like a normal question, and if they’re on a party or such, that can be difficult.
Not to mention that if she’s a biology student, the info that koalas are marsupials probably makes it quicker to her head than the realization that he’s joking.
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nah, my neurodivergent self would treat that as a genuine question and answer the same way despite my feelings for the other person
Yeah but if you let something like that stop you from saying the punchline you probably shouldn’t be dating neurodivergent people
yea :3 the punchline makes the joke obvious and we will still laugh at it
Or worse - if you’re like me, you spend 10 minutes after the joke to talk more about bears, koalas, marsupials, the entire evolution of bears, because they brought up what you thought was an interesting question.
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what?
Just nod smile and move along, don’t upset crazy people
Eh, she might have genuinely not realized that he’s attempting a joke. You do need to bring across in your voice+expression that you’re being humorous, otherwise it sounds like a normal question, and if they’re on a party or such, that can be difficult.
Not to mention that if she’s a biology student, the info that koalas are marsupials probably makes it quicker to her head than the realization that he’s joking.