How much time do you spend in the company of others?

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I have a family of four, and I figure I can't spend more than 30 at the very top a week.
Two teens, and they have their own things they do, and once it gets dark and everyone needs to turn the lights on I run upstairs to my room. I'm very lucky and don't work.

hmm i would think about 10 hours a month, it covers eating at my mom's sometimes and being out and shopping.

With family? Every night but on the laptop.

With friends? Three times a year if they are lucky.

I live with three other people and at most there's the odd chat a day. Rarely is there a discussion. I think I probably;y would talk to people less than an hour a week. That doesn't count online.

With friends it's probably once at month to three or six months sometimes.

I'm fine with it. I'm a busy person. I write, I read, I research and I sometimes draw things. It's all solitary work too.

i have 3 people who visit me, and it is not very often that they visit.
1 person is my "girlfriend" who always wants to come here, but she has accepted that i do not like company much, and so i see her for about 2 days per month (when she comes here and sleeps for the night).

another person is a male who i talk on the phone to relatively regularly (recently), but when things are happening normally i do not speak to him very often.

the third person is also a male who is interested in my business, and he sometimes rings to see how the business is going. i last saw him (in person) 3 months ago but i hear from him about once per week.

i have no family except for sisters who are not very interested in me (i am adopted) and i almost never hear from them. my parents are no longer alive.

i guess that i speak on the phone for about 4 hours per week on average (which includes me ringing my customers to get their orders for the next day) , and i see people for on average 1/2 hour per week (included in that 1/2 hour are the people i see when i go to the business site and collect the revenue).

my "girlfriend" wants to marry me and live with me 24 hours per day and i very much appreciate that i have her love and belief, but i can not stand company for much more than 7-8 hours before i feel my battery is going flat, and 24-7 is impossible for me to accommodate.

i tell her she should look for a romantic partner who will be happy to live with her and provide her with satisfaction on all levels, but she trusts my friendship and needs it more than she needs to find a romantic partner.

on that level, i am sad that i have autism because love is looking me in the face and begging to be with me, but my soul is closed and i always will remain isolated and i can not help it. i just do not have the natural instincts that almost everyone else has.

so my answer is that i spend about 2% of my time in the company of others.

During the summer I have pretty no social interaction with people my age. I sometimes talk to people in my family but usually the TV is on which bother me so I retreat to the more quiet confines of my room.