Are you currently isolated ?

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Currently, probably.

Usually isolation for me has referred to depression, as I've often had, where I just shut myself away from everyone else and then for some reason feel lonely. I do it to myself, I guess... or likely because I don't feel much reason to get out or socialize.

However, I'm a bit isolated this summer and I'm learning to enjoy it, cognitively, think of it less as "loneliness", and more as "solitude". Doesn't help much that life's at a bit of a standstill. Though I'm somewhat job-seeking (and... failing...), I had just graduated from High School, and next month on to College. So aside from facebook, I've kind of left the group of people from high school (finally!). Until I enter a new group of people in college, for the moment, I'm really with no one.

No obligations with others at the moment is pretty nice.

A paying job for college would also be nice, though...

Yes, daily, but I think that the isolation that I generally experience goes hand-in-hand with my being less socially skilled in the way that society for the most part considers normal. It takes people just a few minutes of conversation with me before they seem to instinctively know that they should either ignore me altogether or straighten me out into their way of "right" thinking, which usually just serves to remind me how much I should thank these people for my desiring the solitary life.

Yes. Im unable to work because of my a.s problem with being around others, and spend most of my time indoors due to my my a.s sensory overload. Yesterday i was out and had to keep closing my eyes as the movement at the edge of my visual field was so troubling- it was a little like having my arms brushed. 'Nothing', but disorientating and upsetting.

I generally avoid thinking about this, as its nothing i can contoll but when i do- it is bleak. I dont have any friends anymore.... I dont really live. Sad, isnt it?

The weirdest thing is that i seem 'normal' if you meet me. Ive learnt so well to hide my weirdness. My social slills are good. Well, ok, normal to eccentric, but... You know. People dont believe me if i tell them i have a.s.

I have some tenants living above me, does that count?

Probably not, although I do need "my time" to "recharge" my batteries.

I live at home with my parents, and I usually only go out for job interviews and to see my girlfriend on the weekends.

I'm isolated - I don't make contact with anyone besides my parents and brother, and I only leave the house to go to the doctor/dentist or to go running.

I can feel isolated sometimes especially when I don't have much to do. I do feel lonely at times, but I've grown to listen a little more nowadays, and maybe somehow I'll get what I need sometimes.

I enjoy my isolation.

being in a social situation is very enervating

unlike that being alone which is very refreshing

But I suck at life so much that I can't get a decent job, or any solid job. I over compensate being nice to please the NTs and their dramatic world, that they tend to take advantage of me, not paying what I'm worth etc. So then I hate work, i like work, but then I hate people. I rather work on my projects, my literary projects of writing analytical papers for fun on ancient Novels nobody has heard of I'm currently working on Babs the Impossible by Sarah Grand. Wow man wow. It's so disneyesque (old 30s movies like polyanna etc, how in the hell did Uncle Walt miss THIS one)?

I think I enjoy this hobby. I rather live in a bunker like shell structure. (I hear there are underground apartments in Japan). I love my shell. I need it to survive. And people keep on wanting to do the Mario jump on my shell and use it for Mario Cart. Over my dead body. Well in Mario's case of course. But regardless. I want my shell. I need it. It's my crystal meth.

Yep, I'm isolated. The only people I have regular contact with are my parents and sister, and a couple of friends who I hang out with most sundays. My current isolation is partly to do with the fact that it's my summer break from Uni, and partly to do with the fact that I've been a total as*hole and driven away those who tried to be my friend.

Completely isolated. The only people I see are doctors and parents. Some of it is due to AS, but some is definitely due to significant health problems that hinder my ability to do everyday things.

I isolate myself. I'm quite content to stay home most days and talk to nobody in my real life.

I feel isolated but I recognize that it is very much a state of mind. I live in a densely populated urban city and yet I have very little contact with people. I guess isolation is not having as many social contacts as you would like.

I work for a small company and as a result I usually only interact with two or three people throughout the day. The person I have the longest conversations with almost never lets me get a word in edgewise so I tend to feel I get to hear about her obsessions (mostly politics) but rarely get to discuss my own.

I have a couple of friends who I see usually once a week, but sometimes they are busy and can't see me. I have another friend whom I call once a week. Again, mostly she talks and I listen.

So while I interact with a few people on a regular basis, I often feel cut off even from them. I recently started friending a number of old clients on facebook with whom I got on well in the hope that I can build more varied contacts again. This friendship thing takes a lot of work.

Funny how I can be sitting near people every day and yet be so far away...

I am fairly isolated right now. I see my parents about once every 2 weeks for a few days, which is kind of nice. Other than that, I have very few friends or acquaintences, which is generally the way I like it. The only thing is that when you live alone and do everything by yourself you have to be extra careful. It (being alone) forces one to become self reliant. For instance, if the house needs cleaning, and I do not feel like doing it, I am forced into the uncomfortable thought of: "If I don't do this, then who will?" This can be stressful for me sometimes, but as I mentioned, it forces me to do things I might otherwise put off indefinetly. Such is the price for living alone and being isolated.