Do neurotypical people rarely mix friends?

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Or for the most part do they hang out with one group of people at one time, and another group at another time?

All the NT's I know would hang out with just one group. I think if they had another group of friends they'd just merge together as one giant group of friends.
I don't usually mix my friends. I have friends around my age, younger and 20 years older that have never met each other. It doesn't seem to be an NT thing to keep your friends separate.

Adult Diapers. I mean... it depends. If you have an interest in two different things and have a group that is interested in one thing and group that is interested in the other, the only reason to bring both groups together would be if everybody liked a third thing. More likely you would generate a third group containing members from the first and second and that group would find new people that were unique to the third one. If you have five interests and you know two or three other people that share all five interests, you might just always hang out with that one group.

And then you throw a party and invite everyone so that your friends that don't know each other can meet each other and the party itself and the meeting of friends and talking about other friends and generating new friendships and finding new common interests to divide into groups represents the major interest of the herd, let alone the hypothetical grouping of friends. So everybody starts thinking of it as "one group of friends" even if it has subdivisions into tighter circles within circles of more focused interests and activities.

I feel like I have a multiple groups of NT friends I don't mix, or would be horrified with the results if they did (family included).

I don't believe these groups would mix at all, I'm not sure they would merge as they are so different.

I guess some wouldn't mix their work friends with their other friends. But I know some that would. My sister had friends from work that knew her other friends quite well. My sister is so social - she lives with 6 of her friends.

I think it depends on how the friends from other group get along. My best friend had a few groups of friends, and I tried to become friends with one of her friends from another group. She was nice and we hung out sometimes, but there was no...friendship chemistry so we never really got close and stopped trying to push it. At the same time, I've also gotten close from hanging out with friends' other groups. The results vary.

There are different factions of friendly acquaintances...mainly composing of people who hang out at SHFL...and for the most part, they all intermingle at whatever level they are comfortable with...

I never mix friends... i don't want to be responible if people do not like each other and i've wasted someones saturday.