How Much Of A Hermit Are You?

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Apart from going to work and visiting my Mum, I very rarely go out. Probably once or twice a year I'll go clothes shopping. About once a year my boyfriend will drag me out to see his friends as they think I don't exist.

I'd forgotten going for walks though. Once a week I'll go for a walk either on my own or with my boyfriend.

Other than that I'm watching TV or playing computer games. Luckily for me, people at work aren't too nosey so I don't have to explain why I never go out.

I am definitely not a hermit.

My job is very intense on the social reactions. It's good, very rewarding, but exhausting. So I take time to go for a walk, get some alone time at lunch every day. Outside of work, I avoid everyone except my husband. People still invite me to things on a regular basis, which is nice, really, but I have to wonder - after YEARS of inviting me to things, and being turned down, shouldn't they get the picture? And I thought I was bad with social cues...

I used to be but not anymore. I go out with a few friends. I like to go to concerts or places where there are bands playing though don't speak to any other people when I go to these places.

Very much of a hermit.

True hermits are very rare. Most of us do not have a skill set which would enable us to physically survive purely through our own efforts. And even if we did, a day will come when we are physically able to do all that is necessary to keep on living. Most of us live within a call for help from other people, even if we prefer to be solitary.

The life of a true atomically existing hermit is likely to be nasty, brutish and short.

ruveyn

When work is done, I prefer to go straight home. Sometimes even when the gas gage is ringing on the van, I'll convince myself tat there HAS to be enough in there, just so I can avoid stopping and having to converse back and forth with strangers about nothing too special. People, more so relationships, take work, and a lot of times it seems it's more work than I can handle. Most of my socializing is happening on my terms, whether my company knows it or not. Alot of times, I feel fake, hanging out with a friend just because that's the friend thing to do, not because I actually feel like it in that moment in time. Most times, to have company at our place, just feels like an invasion.

I've always said that good friends are the one's I can share a comfortable silence with.

I am my own best friend, I get along with me just fine.

It's very depressing. I'll be nearly bored to tears at home but can't think of anything to do. Can't see any reason in going out by myself. Yay, I can sit at Starbucks and be bored to tears. At least at home, I have a comfortable chair.

Aside from my job, I have no interaction with people outside of the necessary variety involved with errands. No friends. I rarely see or talk to family. Honestly, I can't stand being around anyone for very long.

I would be intensely happy living in the woods or on a mountaintop, so utterly alone.
I guess that makes me a hermit-wannabe.

I've always been a hermit.I only go out for school, work, going to the bar on some nights and chatting with the bartender, or shopping or going for a walk.Sometimes I go to the mall.I don't have anyone to go with since Im a loner, so ya, i am a hermit...Maybe I will have some luck with my new roomate.

I spend most of my time in my room on my laptop.

Even though I do okay in most social situations, if I had a choice I would rather spend time with me, myself and I. So I also spend a lot of time either reading, writing (as I am busy writing some books) or on the computer. Would rather do that than go to a party.

Crusty hermit topic

My kids think I live in a shell.

If it weren't for my volunteer work, I could be accused of tending towards hikkomitori.

I am a hermit big time. I do not have any means of social contact what so ever. it is very hard when the only people in my life are my mom(which is not the contact i would want), group home staff(who are not really social and order and "parent" my life), and the occasional employee of a store or bus driver of the buses I take. The clients that live on the other side,who have moderate autism with mental retardation do not socialize and they have problems where they have no interest or any understanding in socializing and have trouble with communication issues.
Pretty much I am a hermit. I do not consider family or staff social because I do not relate to them, and social to me means fun, friends, and great conversations, not nagging, teasing, bossing me around and the whole "parent" thing. I am going to school in September, but I am 30 and everyone will be under 21 and would think that I am a just another one of them "cougars" who are trying to be all cool hanging with the young folk.

Part of the reason I'm a hermit is due to my shift at work. Tuesday - Saturday, 4:00pm to midnight. I wake up about noon and leave for work about 3:30. I don't know anyone who's free during that time so unless I have some errands to run, I just sit around at home. I go to work where I spend 8 hours in my cubicle. Occasionally I have to interact with some of the other employees, but not much. I get home from work about 12:30am and again, everyone I know is sleeping so I sit around my home, by myself until I go to bed about 4:00am. Sundays, I go to church in the morning and usually, that's it. I live with my mother so I see her, but pretty much everyone else I know spends time with their families on Sundays. I have Mondays off as well, but run into the same problem. No one is available during the day, so I just sit around my home and then no one is available in the evenings so I don't do much then either.