How often do you go out?

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I clicked "once a week" but maybe it would be more frequently depending on what is categorized as "going out." When I hear that phrase I automatically think "bar." On average I go to a bar once a week because people invite me and I know it's good for me to "get out." I NEVER feel like going but I often have more fun than I was expecting when I do go.

I usually eat dinner with friends or watch movies with my roommate a few times a week. I probably won't have much time for socialization starting Monday when my internship and classes start up again.

I go to classes during the week, and go out once, maybe twice a week. Other than that I prefer to stay at home.

I leave my house four times a month for a half-hour grocery run.

i only go out a couple of times a month, but i dont fell im missing anything. id much rather do something productive with my time, like reading, or pursuing my interests alone, than going out and wandering aimlessly throughout the streets looking for something to do. lol

Few times a month, and that's with my family.

If my friends were the outgoing type, then probably most weekends. But my friends aren't, so I rarely go out.

Going out as in going to pubs and clubs with people that aren't my mother? February 2010 was the last time I went out with a few people including my brother and his Brissy friend. Before that I think it was the last time my brother was in town, I went out with him and a friend of his. I can't remember when that was, late 2009 sometime.

I hate going out. I'd rather stay home and do my own thing. I think I have social anxiety...

You sound like mostly young people, talking about clubs and such, so I'll give you my 20's answer.

I met my first husband when I was 19 and he is a VERY social person. So we went out, all the time, numerous times a week. It was fun sometimes, sometimes it was torture. He had many friends and a large family and his own business. He coached me continuously, and while good for me in retrospect, at the time it usually made me sad. He was much older, and I did not know I had AS. He felt I was young and inexperienced and he could teach me. He didn't know he was trying to socialize an Autistic person!

So I would try to remember all the stuff he would tell me to say and how to act. Then we'd get home and I'd get a lecture of everything I did wrong. "Why did you say 'that' to 'so n so'?" I never had a '100 A+' evening where I did not make any social faux pas.

The constant socializing was wearing, and I would be so tired and stressed that I couldn't get much done at home. It bothered me that my house wasn't clean enough (for me). There were other differences too, and he always thought his opinion was the right one. So I didn't have any input into my life. Not that he was mean, he just didn't understand why I would sometimes NOT want to have 20 people over for dinner, or even 2. I left him in my early 30's. But it was amicable.

My second husband is a geek, NT but not much for socializing. He enjoys having lunch with guys he works with, that he has something in common with. But he does not like dinner parties, or going to bars, or any parties really. Just me and him doing things nights and weekends. This is a much better relationship for me. More relaxing. After working all week I just need to stay in and rest up on the weekends so I can go back on Monday!

After the first marriage for a long time I never wanted to go to another party again. Now I find that I enjoy getting together with other women, for an evening of cards say, about once a month. But that's my limit.

Socially, I'm lucky if it's once a month. I wish it was once a week because I honestly feel kind of lonely and depressed. But all of my "friends" are busy with their own lives or I just don't have many friends...

hmmmmmm . . . my boyfriend is extremely social, so we go out pretty frequently. During "party seasons" (springtime and holidays) might be as much as 10 times in two weeks. Yes, I frequently find it stressful, but am learning to deal with it better.

However, the question seems to be how often I go out for "fun" by my own choice, either with my own friends or by myself, right? If so, maybe twice a year?

I willingly go out with friends about once every 2-3 months at most. But then there's school/etc.

I'm proud (sorta?) to say that during the summer holidays I can very well never step outside the house.

Very often. It didn't used to be that way. Going to college and making real friends has changed that. This past year has been the first time I have had a social life, and i'm talking a real social life - parties, road trips, clubbing, hanging out at people's houses and apartments.
It's been odd because I have never had such a social life.

At least once a month...but sometimes more. I've been out with friends twice in the past week, but that's kinda a maximum for me.

Because of my work schedule, 4:00pm to 1:00am, Mon - Fri, I don't get to go out very much. I do go to a game shop before work a few times a week to play Magic or something and once a month, me and some other guys get together to play board games, but that's about it.

I never go out. Most of my NT friends go out a lot, but naturally, they never invite me to anything, being that they're a bunch of dicks.