"Complete Exhaustion After Socialising?"

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I have a bad habit of falling a sleep after a while when I visit people. lol

That's how I feel. Sometimes I actually get panicked because I just can't take it any more. I need to rest.

You know those perky people who smile a lot and make pleasant conversation with strangers? I am the complete opposite of that.

I have the same thing happen. Even if I'm having a great time, I get worn out after a couple of hours - plus it gets harder to process everything.

Oh yeah, Id say it happens more to me when Iam not expecting to be in a social situation.

Yeah, I can relate. The amount of social interaction I can do depends on how much energy I have left in my 'social battery.' The more fun the interaction is, the slower the battery drains, but anything more than about 5 hours ends up being too much. It usually takes the same amount of time to recharge my battery as it did to run it out.

Yes, I have the "social battery" too. Unfortunately mine gets used up by work, so by the time I get home all I want to do is go on the computer and zone out. I am a bagger at a grocery store, and part of the job involves saying "Hi" to people. I don't have this problem with my fellow coworkers, as if one day I don't say "hi" to a person they don't seem to mind. But it is required for customers when you bag for them to say a greeting.

I can totally relate to the concept of "social battery" too.

Does anyone else find that after a social situation, they spend hours and hours analysing their every move and that of the other people involved? I always do this - trying to figure out if what I said and did was ok. I wish I didn't do it, it's exhausting and prevents me from sleeping.

Yeah, I usually find myself to be quite tired or even very irratated/annoyed if I have to take part in large amounts of being around a lot of people. For example, when I used to work four hour shifts at my old job, I would always seem to come home very tired and overwhelmed and it would be even worse when I had to work six or eight hour shifts. I would just come home exhausted, annoyed, or very pissed off. I just can't seem to be around a lot of people for long periods of time. I don't mind spending a lot of time with one or two people, but if I have to spend a lot of time with lots of people, I feel anxious, annoyed, and just plain drained.

Yes, I find all human contact tiring, even contact with my own family. I really need to move into my own place, because I spend all day at work being around people, and I need to be alone after that. I need space. Often I go straight to sleep as soon as I get home, I'm so tired. I can relate to the people who said they have to go over the whole situation again in their head to figure out what was going on - apparently a lot of people with Asperger's feel the need to do this. I suppose it's because we can't do it instantaneously, like NTs seem to do.