Is it a common thing amongst aspies to often be the buff of everyone’s joke?

I am the office punching bag. Sounds extreme. Honestly it’s really just playful banter. I still miss some jokes. Some things I still take too literally because I can’t think of an alternate definition of a word or how else a situation could possibly go.

Sometimes despite being a person who really isn’t all that innocent and it’s almost like I feel I have to prove that sometimes people still treat me like I am innocent and immature.

I would ask why they treat me this way but it feels like neurotypicals hardly bother to self reflect on why they do anything and to put them on the spot about something they haven’t thought results in a very unsatisfactory answer most of the time.

I’ve thought about why they must treat me this way and I can’t help but feel it’s in big part due to me not knowing much about some adult topics and risqué subjects. Not sex unless there is some new slang that confuses me but things like drugs, crime, weed, or something else and because I don’t something about it I must be innocent to the world and untarnished and therefore must be protected.

This becomes frustrating because I often ask questions and I’m their defense maybe I don’t ask those questions at the proper time and place but I ask anyways and they make it feel like pulling teeth just to get a reply to explain something.

Alternatively I have wonder if it’s just my interests or how I present myself and of course it’s very hard to have a unbiased viewpoint of yourself because some things you do may be invisible and untraceable to yourself but to someone else or neurotypicals it’s as obvious as a third eye.

The playful banter and giving me a hard time seems to be how anyone tries to interact with sometimes. Which is fine for the most part. It is all in good fun because I participate in it too, but it seems all of the time.

Attempting to talk in different ways about different subjects seems hard. It’s like they have developed a habit of dealing with me a certain or to talk to me a certain way. Which is probably the case but I dislike that. It’d be nice if someone ELSE would be the butt of a joke sometimes. I participate in it but it always somehow turns back on me.

It makes me wonder sometimes if this friendly banter is telling me kernels of truth but presenting in it a digestible easily accept way without hurting feelings. If some of the jokes are how they see me or view me but it’s embellished and exaggerated for effect and impact of the joke and humor. For example, say they give me a hard time for getting overwhelmed in situations. Just anxiety. And will always look back at a time(often the same example every time) to prove I’m easily overwhelmed and filled with anxiety.

I do have issues with anxiety especially when dealing with new situations but they make it sound like it’s all of the time and ignore times I’ve been rather relaxed and handled things calmly. Sometimes I just wanna chalk it up to human beings always focusing on the negative all of the time but it still affects how they see me. This affecting my daily life.

I don’t wanna stop them from doing so. Seems unnecessary especially if I’m taking part too. It would seem to cause unnecessary hassle and I am not all THAT bothered by it.

What does bother me a bit tho is I’ve been wondering if any of it has to do with being an aspie and if other aspies find themselves in conversations where they always end up being messed with, teased, hard time, playful banter but in a friendly way.