Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Hiya. We're both 19. I come from UK, him from Ireland, and sometimes when I say something relatively serious he'll respond with a joke, which are usually funny but also often exhausting when I just want to have a conversation. We've talked about it, it's fine really, he knows it's not the most satisfying thing for him to do. 

He has anxiety or something and is kind of afraid of being too real, or at least tries to get away from it instinctively, so I can understand why he does it. However, it often left me with no response available, because my mind can't switch track away from serious that quickly, and sometimes I do honestly need to talk about the thing (in which case I do just repeat it and he does actually answer). This led to me not even trying to respond if he does it, with my dual logic being that it also might teach him to be a bit more serious. 

Still, I feel cruel or at least impolite without at least giving him a pity chuckle when he does it. 

TLDR: BF responds to serious queries with dumb responses. I ignore them to teach him a lesson and because I can't thing