Are you currently isolated ?

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Wondering how many people are currently isolated in life from anything or anybody because of difficult circumstances or "autism" etc?

People might say I am isolated, but I enjoy being that way. It's like freedom to me. I don't have drama to get caught up in or worries about what other people are thinking or saying or doing. It's easier for me to just keep to myself.

From Aspergers, no. From depression, sometimes. I could be in the middle of the new years eve mob in Times Square and feel completely alone.

Nope, not isolated. I enjoy hanging with my friends, but not all that often. I just need to be alone quite a bit (strangely enough being online with others doesn't cause the same effect,although sometimes I need a vacation from them as well but more rarely). I think I meet up with my best friend around 3x a week and maybe we talk on the phone 2x a week. Then I see care workers once a week. I'm supposed to go to class once a week and have a "job" once a week in the fall, usually it would be OK, now I wonder how I'll cope..

I'd say that I'm fairly isolated at the moment. Strangely enough, it does distress me as I do feel lonely.

Yes.

Yesssssss. It's turning me into a very strange person.

*shamelessly blames strangeness on lack of social life*

Kinda. One local friend, and my parents are nearby. My work is just me and my boss for the most part... people generally don't need to come to us or our building.

I wouldn't say that I'm isolated, but I am going to cut off from society, by choice, for a few days. When I take my second last antibiotic, on Friday than I'll be with my friends, again.

Not by my own accord.

Only currently

I used to have a university research job where people were very tolerant of diversity, and I really miss the opportunities for interesting discussion - about my own interests, about the news, about political change.

Most of my social contact now is with people who have no obvious interests, don't follow news and see politics only as a form of tribal loyalty. Most conversation revolves around who-said-what-to-who gossipy stuff, mostly about people I don't know.

So yes, I feel isolated and the social contact I do have actually increases that sense of isolation.

Thanks for asking. Yes, I am. Not so much by choice. I need a lot of time alone. But I'd like to have friends and participate group activities without always fearing that I'm going to screw it up. So basically I don't participate because of that fear. Knowing that I'm so isolated makes it worse. I totally understand this comment: (Spooky13 wrote) "I could be in the middle of the new years eve mob in Times Square and feel completely alone."

I'm semi-isolated but I bring it onto myself.