If Alone For Too Long . . .

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Yeah special intrests are great and all. I mean I have the materials and the know how to be the b est artist I've ever dreamed of but,

I remember the happiest times of my adult life and they were the most social, When I was needed as a teacher. B est job i ever had.

I feel I have a hard choice to make.

It depends on some days. If I'm alone for days, I get really really really lonely, but I'm already lonely. At least I have my cats and this website to talk to.

I need *some* human contact, otherwise I replay situations in my head endlessly, rethinking through scenarios, sometimes coming up with quite distressing endings.

If for some reason my family (or housemates when I was at uni) go away for a few days and I'm alone I feel energised and excited that I can do what I want and not have anyone interrupting me or making me feel that I should be socialising. I skip around the house as though a weight has been lifted.

I feel more alone when I have to share a house for some reason.

i like being alone:D

If you're spending time communicating with people online (email, message boards), are you REALLY alone? 'Cause I'll spend hours by myself, and when my boyfriend is out of town, sometimes a couple of days without even going to to the store, but I am online all day - it's part of my work as a writer and a big part of my life.

I did spend several years where I didn't socialize much, and when I finally started getting back in touch with old friends, I felt fine hanging out with them but I found I needed to learn how to do social behavior all over again. Like someone wanted to meet me at a bar for a drink and it had been so long since I'd been to one, I practically had a panic attack trying to think of one! I finally had to post to a local networking group I'm in to come up with a decent place for a drink. Embarrassing!

Other than little issues like that I feel like that saying, "You can never be too rich or too thin" - you can never be alone for too long! But then, I'm a writer along with being an Aspie and require more solitude than the average person (or probably even the average Aspie).

-J.

I love being alone. I wish I were alone more often.

For the first few hours I feel euphoric. After that I'm just happy and more creative than usual.

I love being alone...I like doing what I want when I want. I love complete silence with the exception of the music from my headphones.

As long as I have the Internet, I am satisfied with being alone physically for long periods of time. I am definitely more "talkative" online. After a while, though, I begin to feel abandoned and left out. I then wonder what my friends/family are doing that I'm missing out on.

When I'm alone, I automatically switch into 'learning mode'. There is always something, I want to learn more about.

Longest time I have been without direct human contact (even online) is probably 9 days. I mean, I heard the next door neighbours pottering around etc... but no actual contact.

Then I had to go to store for food.

I was fine with it. If I hadn't run out of food I was quite content to continue along. But that was just over a two week break with work. I can't just keep accruing holidays. If I don't take them, eventually they expire. These days, I take my holidays and I go places. So not too much alone time for me... at least... not at that level.