Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture so...
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
My failure during the first five or six years of my art training to get set in the right direction and the disappointment which it caused me drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.