How do you feel about parties?

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Depends, really.

I'm not really much for parties, per se. When feeling social, I like small groups of no more than four to six people (preferrably people I am familiar with or have some common ground). I'm not much in to lots of dinking, lound music and dancing, certainly no drugs. I am generally more in to quite and calm socialising.

When I get an invitation (somewhat rare) to an get-to-gether of some sort, I am honest. If I don't feel up to it I politely deline. If I feel up to it I accept and go. Of course if it is mandatory or necessary (to avoid hurting feelings, &c) I offer it up and go.

Ewww.

Another thing about college parties is that when they become super loud, I have a more difficult time conversing w/ people because I cannot even hear what they're saying.

We had one at work just yesterday. We were all standing round in the office eating cake, most people drinking champagne etc. I was okay, no meltdowns but I felt pretty horrible. Some people made conversation with me (mainly small talk) but I eventually went to the toilet then walked around the city for a while, then just got back to work.

It wasn't enjoyable at all for me and afterwards I felt really tired. I've never been invited to a party like the ones I hear about at school (huge amounts of alcohol, insecure teenage girls kissing anything that has lips, male or female, and then bragging about it at school the next day), thank goodness! It's not my scene at all.

Like a lot of people have said, I can't hear what people are saying over all the other noise so they have to repeat stuff for me. I end up having awkward moments and feeling stupid pretty quick.

I love parties. Only thing that pisses me off is that it's hard to hear what people are saying and I feel like a dumbass saying "WHAT?" three times ROFL.

Unless I know every peron at the party, you could call me the one who sits near the food table and eats at the chips even if they dont like them, nervousness.
in the other case when I know everyone there I go loud and crazy (kind of lkie bipolar hypo), due to the exact same reason.

I loathe them and avoid them whenever possible, unless it's just a small gathering of people I know well.

My usual way of coping is to talk to everyone as much as possible until everyone is drunk, and then leave. No one ever notices if I wait to leave until they're drunk, but they do remember I was there and they got to talk to me.

And I get to go home early and get away from the unpleasantness which is drunk people doing stupid things relatively early in the night.

I like the idea of parties. The irresponsibility, the superficiality, the ridiculousness, and the end of night drama. It's all very amusing to sit by and watch, until it's nauseating.

I usually end up watching all of the antics because I can not figure out what else to do. I know I'm supposed to be social and dance and drink but none of that is structured enough and I end up feeling embarassed when I think about what I'm actually doing. Or I can drink and be irresponsible and superficial and ridiculous and then people think I'm fun. I don't consider that to be the real me but more of a role to play which is comforting alone.

For me it is really a moot question.

I'm not a party person, never have been really. To be honest most people in my family that I know/knew were not party type people either.

Personally I like to socialise in small groups or go out to eat with a small groups of friends or relatives.

Yes, occasionally I get stuck having to make an appearance at a party. Generally, I prefer at least twenty four hours to prepare. At most parties (excluding family birthdays, &c.) people usually begin to act like imbiciles after a few hours. Not my type of entertainment. Generally not my preferred genre of music either.

When I do end up at a party I never stay more than one hour unless I am relying on someone else for transportation. I find myself way overstimulated after an hour at most large parties. Nonetheless, I do somehow manage to make it through the rare occasions I have to stay for longer periods of time.

I loathe parties unless I'm (a) with family, or (b) with people other than my workmates. This is why I usually attend a Christmas party for my roleplaying group, but not the office do. I have no desire to see people I have to work with the next morning stumbling around half-unconscious and babbling rubbish at all & sundry. Jerks.

I don't mind parties if I can take breaks and not socialize so much. Generally I'll get a little drunk and hang out near the food(I love to eat, ironically I'm one of those types who can eat all day and not gain weight!)

It would depend on the type of party.

Tim

I don't get invited to them, so I don't have an opinion.

I (sort of) had to go to a Christmas party for work this year; it was a cocktail party. It was an aspie's worst nightmare. Socially, I was way in over my head.

I only like to party with people over thirty who read a lot. They're nice to talk to.

Yeah, I definitely get along better with older people. I just realized that on a lot of online AS quizzes, they ask "Would you rather go to a party or a library?" I was kind of shocked to realize I'd rather go to a library. It sounds really pathetic when I think about it. But parties just are not my thing, and I love to read. However, I don't mind getting together with a close friend - that's fun for me, but not much else.

It depends on the party... who the people are, what the atmosphere is like, what the music is like - the music is very important to me. If I love the music, and the atmosphere is good, I could be in a sea of 10,000 people that I don't know and I would enjoy myself. On the other hand, even a very small party but with terrible music and bright white lights and I won't want to be there at all.

Alcohol helps, too. Just enough to lower my inhibitions enough so that I can talk about dumb sh!t to people that I don't know, but not enough that I'm ret*d and stumbling around.