Do you think giggling to oneself when alone is a sign of aging ?

Depends. Is something funny? I giggle to myself sometimes. Maybe old people just don’t care about what others think, and are less inhibited.

I have done this all my life. I’m usually laughing at some insane concept that just entered my mind. The worse one is when someone catches you, and they think you are crazy, and so you laugh more.

Due to my job, I had been in a lot of nursing homes and I never noticed this at all. Mostly I noticed sadness or just blank stares or boredom. I think it is just a hollywood portrayal that is not necessarily true.

I have gotten tons of shit for admitting this to people.

I am fucking hilarious. really I am the funniest person I know.

I can turn a bird hitting a window into comedy.

Me, too. But I won’t tell anyone else. lol

I do it all the time. and like @poisonedantidote said it’s some insane concept.
But the best part for me is when somebody asks me whats so funny, and I bust up laughing at them.

@chyna I’ve seen a lot of the blank stares, too. Do you think it’s boredom or drugs? I used to think they’d enjoy themselves talking to one another but they don’t do that much at all.

I’ve been doing that since I was in elementary school. Some people just have more exciting thought lives than others.

Nope. It’s a sign of self awareness.

Catching your thoughts and laughing at the inner dialogue.

I do this all the time. Crack myself up with the stuff I see running through my mind.

@Aster I know, I thought that they would too, but they don’t. It could be the drugs or the fact they are giving up on life at this stage where they are stuck in a nursing home. They also revert back to behaving as if they are in grade school. They tell on each other and they are mean to each other, won’t allow new people to sit with them in the cafeteria. It’s all very sad.

Well, if I saw a kid bursting into laughter while totally alone, not watching tv, I’d suspect he or she might be schizophrenic. I am pretty sure that one symptom of schizophrenia is having a dialogue with oneself that might include laughing or giggling or are they really speaking to voices in their heads?
@chyna , exactly . And come to think of it, which I wish I had not, I can imagine if I were in the last stop on the tour, so to speak, I’d be depressed and not want to socialize.
I have a girlfriend whose mother is 90 and father is 95. They live in the home they’ve shared for decades. I wish there were classes that taught how to do this less dangerously if one were fortunate enough to make it that long .

@Coloma possibly but I never see young people alone bursting into laughter or giggles.

No it shows I have a sense of humour.
BTW I usually have my dogs with me, so when someone sees me and I am unsure, I pretend I am laughing at them LOLL

@Aster

Well, most young people take life waaay too seriously.
We DO get younger, the older we get! It all becomes a great cosmic joke. ;-)

We get younger the older we get?? Lucky you; I haven’t. Aging , sickness and death is the great cosmic joke but who’s laughing?

I dont think so, iv always done it. Sometimes to the point where Im laughing quite loud While remembering something, and people say ‘what the hells so funny?’ oh nothing…

I do that but only in the past couple of years. ): I need to get out more?