How reclusive of an individual are you?

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My landlady asked me awhile ago if I wanted a kitchen table for my apartment. She said it was in case I wanted to have someone over and such. This leads me to believe that I have nosy but concerned neighbors who told her that I'm always alone up here and very quiet.
I've spent quiet a bit of time in commune style sober living environments and I always enjoy being in that kind of interactive living condition, but as soon as I get out on my own I end up completely alone. I've tried to make some friends by visiting people and doing volunteer work but I've pretty much made it a year so far without anyone going out of their way to pay me a visit or call me.
I get pretty upset with people over this but I'm pretty sure its all because of some sort of vibe that I send out. I'm always open about whats going on in my life and I'm sure I come across as someone who does'nt care to be bothered with visitors. I actually wouldn't mind it though but my apartment has become kind of a mess after all this time.
I'm sure if I became a popular guy to hang out with that pretty soon I would feel that people are taking up too much of my time. I'm happier the way things are now, but ideally a once a week game or movie night would put my life on a much more even keel.

i am very reclusive in specific situations. i will go out with friends occasionally, but it isnt needed on a weekly basis. i enjoy being in public...as long as i am amongst strangers. i lik watching people- not nessicarily "bonding" with them. there are few people i truly enjoy spending a significant amount of time with.

Sorry to be a pedant but I think the description is 'unsocial' rather than 'antisocial', as in; I don't feel motivated to call in and see you as opposed to; I don't feel motivated to call in and see you but will come around and sh*t on your door step.

It really makes me grip my sh*t if people descibe me as antisocial, makes it sound as if I've some gripe against society; I don't, I'm just at ease with my own company more than most other people who seem the need to socialise in order to get reassurance and validation ( is that the right word?).

Very reclusive, but often wish that I was never reclusive. I don't have many friends and I don't really go out to get new friends either. I wish I had a way to release all the stress I have and worry that I will never make a good friend in life or ever have a good life.

How reclusive of an individual's what?

I can be reclusive, when I want to be. On the nights that I don't go out, I stay home with my apartment door locked.

I was officially diagnosed with Schizoid Personality Disorder instead of AS & that disorder is about being an extreme longer so yes I am very reclusive but I do wish I had a one friend I could be close to

I am very reclusive these days and that has alot to do with the depression i've been dealing with for the past 18 months. I don't even answer my phone much of the time when family and friends call. All this feels fairly natural for me and so does this depression itself. My life has never been substantially better, so the times that I don't FEEL depressed are most perplexing ones. Ditto for the times i'm more outgoing, relatively less introverted and socially isolated. More or less...I pretty much have a textbook case of schizoid personality disorder. Up until recently, I was dx-ed with schizotypal on almost everyone of the neuropsych evals i've taken. I was finally dx-ed with schizoid pd on the neuropsych eval I had in June. I feel the neuropsychologists finally got it right for once insofar as my personality disorder dx is concerned. I've been saying that the schizoid criteria fits me better than the schizotypal one for years now.

As usual....the psychologists rarely take the self-diagnosed seriously and they often think they know better.

I see myself as highly reclusive, even though I don't like to stay indoors all the time. I like to go out and about so long as I don't have to talk to anyone and nobody speaks to me. I don't have friends and I don't socialise. I usually go out on my own and much prefer it that way. I don't like going out with other people and the only people I would go out with usually are my son and my support worker. I like to explore London, looking at interesting places and finding quirky new places I didn't know were there, but it is a very solitary activity. It is also quite a good way to get some exercise.
I go to jewellery making classes one day a week and I have a support worker in the classes with me for some of that time. I don't initiate interaction with anybody there unless I need help from the tutor, and tend not to speak unless somebody speaks to me first.
I feel it is important for me to go out regularly, otherwise I could become housebound, simply because I could become too socially phobic to leave the house and I know that isn't the kind of life that I want.

I work, I go to the store, I see my mother once every couple of weeks but apart from that I am usually at home and I like it that way. I do have this "friend" who needs me to drive her places and listen to her talk about herself, but I wouldn't call that socializing.

i am becoming more and more resentful of intrusion into my free time by people.

i have only a certain amount of time to live, and i only really live when i am on my own where i am free to think and do as i please.

i sometimes feel people are stealing some of my time when they impose upon me their presence and their demands for me to accommodate them.

if i was never born, no one would miss my existence, and no one would feel that there is anything missing in the world.

so i do not understand why they require to posit themselves in my existence and feel ripped off if i do not want them to be with me.

I'm highly reclusive in the sense that I like to be by myself a lot, but I wouldn't pass up a chance to go out and do something fun.

Highly reclusive for the 30-31 years of my life that I remember well.

I am moderately reclusive.

I work a full-time job (school teacher).
I like to eat out as much as possible, but there is comfort in eating at home.
Other than eating out, I prefer the solitude of my home.
I try to avoid places like Wal-Mart.
I tend to avoid visiting people unless its close family.
I have no friends (just acquaintances).
Neighbors rarely see me because once I am home---I am mainly indoors.