How do Asperger people party?

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Usually find myself wandering the edges and pulling dead leaves off the houseplants, looking outside and (silently) criticizing the landscaping job (while designing a better one in my mind).

If there is a pet dog or cat around, there shall you find me.

As for "Do I effort to go to parties" ? No.
Most parties I end up at are family, work, or friend initiated.
Family has moved away. Work is not happening at the moment, and I have one friend ATM.
So you can tell how actively I'm involved with the 'gibbering masses'

With great difficulty. Hah.

hum, this depends on the context plus the technique!

First the party. There are parties bad parties and there are good parties.

Bad parties are often those planed early and when your very first feeling was a spark of hope that it could go well, but you go, and for some external reason it was plain bad as if you were waiting for a plane in a snowy airport. Reasons are external and might range:
- too many drunk people (excluding you, obviously)
- average age plus or minus ten years compared to you (you notice smaller people or very slow people)
- bad music (bored faces people rolling eyes in the 5 seconds of every track, or easier: no people dancing)
...
The feeling I have is a unstructured flow of events scattered with less and less successful attempts to cheer (by me or the other). It is not related to our skills, Earthians do not fully master the art of a good party, even between themselves

Good parties are often those unexpected that you didn't want to go in the first place where:
- you laugh
- you dance
- you meet nice people and have sex with the nicest
- you find the writer of your favorite book (in case of a political MeetUp party)
...
You notice that the common thing is a harmonious sequence of good things and feelings flow without us actively defining the detailed sequence in the first place (you always notice it after the party). You somehow embrace the place and people as they come without a delay, so how to reproduce this? (without the heavy use of autochthonous alcoholic brevages)

That's the context, let's talk about the technique.

If I am at any moment entering my statical super reflective state of over analyzing, I try to become aware of The Opportunistic Moment.
The Opportunistic Moment is a window of about 1 to 3 seconds just after you realize you can do or say something. Knowing that on planet Earth our brain abilities are multiplied way over the Earthians we often get lost at that precise moment arguing with ourselves the colors in the pattern of the curtains, the strange taste of the punch, the metaphysical-grammar ratio of the thing to say and the optimal trajectory to reach someone.
At that precise moment, when that precise overwhelming *DING* comes to your mind, that specific action you trigger the following: say you do it and do it

You might think you are not yet fully aware of the locals Earthian habits yet and you might trigger a diplomatic incident, but that is where you are wrong: the strong *DING* of The Opportunistic Moment is the exact result when all lights are green and you should do it. If a light would be orange or red, there is no Opportunistic Moment.
Often we let pass the few critical seconds, don't act or worse act later when the moment has fade out. It is not completely lost and goes to add a line into our ever growing Encyclopedia-Earthianica

So be aware, experiment gradually and eventually give me some feedback on this!

I only ever go to a party if I have a very good friend to go with who I know won't abandon me and usually after a few drinks and some conversation with them there to help it along I may or may not brave a one on one conversation.

I usually just gravitate toward where there's a musical, scientific, or political discussion going on in a group so that I can just throw in random facts and ease in that way. In that sense my narrow interests can actually help and drunk NT people tend to talk for long periods of time about the same thing so it sort of evens the playing field, lol.

I can actually quite enjoy parties if I can get the above plan into action.

However I don't want to hold my friends back so if they meet people and leave me there before I've managed to feel somewhat comfortable I'll quite often just sit there by myself and want to leave.

I don't like parties.
When it's small party, I usually sit and it and try not no fall asleep listening to other people chatting. I really don't understand why do I need about how someone's friend bought new car...
One time I was a big party celebrating end of a term with other student. It was not bad...I took part at some games, although it was difficult, and took a night walk with some other students. I found, that my intention to control all my emotions is so strong...that people cannot say, how much had I drink. Alcohol don't affect my behavior at all, even if I want.

Party = Hell. I try to avoid going in the first place, and if I have to go to be polite, I hide, or I find the oldest person there; preferably 85+, and strike up a conversation about World War II, and keep busy talking to that one person for the whole rest of the time.

Charles

I go and be alone. I have food and do the computer if they have the internet. I play my games or read or watch DVDs on the laptop.

The life and soul of the party! Aspies party HARD!
^This is a lie, in general.

I do like parties though, I like going to friends' houses when it's their birthday and we have a buffet and play video games and stuff. I hardly EVER go to or get invited to proper parties where you dance and stuff, but the few I've been to I've enjoyed. I'm not the life and soul of the party and I stick with the same few people, but I can still have fun and goof around. I like discos because I spend more time dancing than talking, which makes it a lot easier to enjoy because I'm not worrying over what to say when you can't hear eachother speak anyway.

I don't like parties. So if I have to go to a party, I stay in a corner of the room.

I like some parties. Back at home I didn't like going to parties at all. I went sometimes just for something to do, but I usually was the one in the corner, like a lot of you have said.

Right now I'm away at college, and I like the parties here. I went to 4 last night. As for what I do at them...took some shots, smoked a little, and danced a lot. (I'm not a dancing kind of person, but with everyone drunk and it being dark it was a lot of fun.) I didn't really chat with people, except my good friends.

I load up on caffeine and act like I'm wasted on alcohol... and when that happens, I'm really quite capable of partying like an extroverted NT, including doing really stupid, ill-advised things. Or I avoid the caffeine and I stick very close to someone I know. Or I stay near the buffet table and leave as soon as I think I've fulfilled my social obligations. One of those.

Now days, I party alone.

I try to avoid them in the first place. When I do have to go I usually seek out the quietest place I can find. Often people who also hate the noise and crowds gravitate to the same place. I have had some very interesting converstions with such people.

For me a party is just spending time and conversing with a few people if I get along with them and connect with them. That is more than stimulating enough for me.

Most of my friends are smokers, so I light up a cigar and hang with them outside. Since a cigar takes a good 45 minutes+ to smoke properly, I'll usually get chat with everyone I came to hangout with, and usually meet a few new people too. Then when I do go back in, I know more people and feel more comfortable with the group, can grab a drink and strike up a conversation.

Now at my Aspie meetup group, I'm one of the hosts so I try to circulate and at least introduce myself to any new members at each meeting, which is a challenge because everyone knows me and wants to chat me up about various things and it can be tough to break away. The vibe is different at those events too, since I'm at least partly in charge and have tasks to perform I don't feel the same awkwardness that I would at a normal house party type thing.