Your prefered type of social interaction.

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What is your preferred type of social interaction?

I assume there are different types such as spending time with a partner, spending time with platonic friends, spending time with family, spending time at informal gathering with close relatives or strangers etc yadda yadda.

Which type do you crave the most if any?

I don't crave social interaction at all, whatsoever.

If anything I crave time alone, I don't get enough of it.

I only crave time with a girlfriend. On occasion, I miss my sister, but she has no interest in me and we have nothing in common so I feel it less and less often and it is not very intense.

Time with a few close friends is nice but I hate being asked to organize things because I have no idea where to start. It's therefore no good if my girlfriend asks "organise something nice for Tony and his wife this weekend".

I hated time with relatives and family and now that they're gone I don't miss them.

Time alone is OK but I need to be careful that I don't get stuck in a rut. We Aspies love routine and it's easy to slip into long lonely days with just the computer for company.

I miss sexual intimacy (that's social, right? you can't do it properly without "associating" with someone), but I also miss stimulating, imaginative conversation. It's almost a tossup as to which I miss most, though I've rarely found both in the same individual.

Time with people (usually friends) with whom I can have highly interesting and open minded intellectual discussions. It is the most rewarding and the less anxiety-generating form of social interaction I can experiment. It is usually 1-to-1 discussion with a friend.

Time spent with my girlfriend can be fantastic but very often I don't know how to socialize ; it is interesting and often rewarding but absolutely not anxiety-free.

Being in a group of people is usually not interesting but can be more or less okay depending of the group.

Being forced in a 1-to-1 interaction with someone I have nothing to do with is what I hate most.

The only thing I really love doing with other people is watching TV or movies. It's more fun with someone else there, to laugh or comment on things that are interesting. Plus I can focus better for some reason. By myself I just get bored after 5 minutes and turn it off.

But it's weird that my one social activity is something that isn't really social at all – just 2 people sitting there watching TV and not really talking much!

One on one if I have to directly interact -- especially if talking is involved. (Up to a few people in a low-key setting if our socializing is about being-with vs expectations of any particular type of interaction happening.)

I don't crave social interaction.
My preferred type of interaction is doing activities together, such as playing board games or Lego.

I like spending time with friends(don't have many) and family....preferably small gatherings, but I don't mind a larger gathering every once in a while or even a party but a couple beers at least are necessary for that or at least preferable. As for an intimate relationship, just not sure about that...I have someone who is interested but yeah I guess my mind is just not in the right place so I had to turn them down for that right now I more need friends/family I can talk to but as for committing to an intimate relationship I can't do that at this point.

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Smalltalk and regular conversations with people who are actually interesting.

Spending time with my family.
Which is just mom and dad and/or aunt uncle and/or grandparents.
Spending time with my cousin.
Spending time my only friend.
Any combination of the above.

One on one , in a quiet place with either my mum or my friend.