Are you able to socialize every day?

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This. I can socialise maybe half a day, max 3 days a week. Even that's tiring, and goes on the assumption that I get to spend the rest of that time completely alone or socialising online if I choose to (which I will often do for a little while and then take a break from) which I generally don't as my mother, who I live with, tends to come and talk to me quite a lot about pointless things. I sometimes end up snapping at her and I don't know if she realises it's just because it takes so much energy for me to interact with other people.

It depends on what you mean by socializing.

I live with my boyfriend and need him around. I don't function well without him. However, its not really socialization to me.

I "socialize" with people online every day. However that's participating in forums and IRC channels associated with special interests and focusing on special interests.

When I go and interact with others in person tends to be short periods of times in evenings, doing specific things that aren't just "socializing" (but playing games and such).

If socializing just means being around people, I can do most days, but not very long each day (I can't do a full half day even 3 days a week regularly). If socializing requires things like discussions rather than things like high-strategy games, then no.

Not like the OP's sister does, but in my own way, I am able to socialize with small groups of people I know each day. I HAVE to leave the house and get very bored if I don't, even if I don't socialize, I just have to leave. I tend to get bored at home, I "sing on the sidewalk", as I say; it's from a song where a guy talks about being bored and going out to busk because "there is nothing to do". I basically just do things (such as homework and watching Youtube videos) because it is at least something to do, while I am at home.

I assume going to work would count as a yes?

I do get overwhelmed socially if I'm not careful. I know a lot of people, but I have a small number of friends who I'm OK with having over often--they're very low-maintenance and don't mind me puttering around and not bothering with tons of social niceties.

However, even with those folks I max out after a few hours straight, generally.

Able to?
I suppose theoretically I could. But in reality I don't.

nope...
i am able to be in a social situation every day (forced; at dinner), but often i just 'zombie' that out, being there physically but mentally completely unavailable

There are people around me and trying to interact with me almost everyday - family living in the same apartment, friends dropping a message by mail - so yes, I'm able to do that much.

I think that's where socialising starts. Hearing your neighbours, passing someone (even without a greeting) outside, a TV playing or reading what another person has wrote (an article, a personal message, news). It's all mildly exhausting but can deliver such interesting new information!

I almost voted yes, but then I realized that what I sometimes consider socializing (being in the same room with someone and sometimes having verbal exchanges with them) is not the kind of socializing you were referring to.

No, I definitely can not go out and socialize every day, especially if it's the type of socializing that requires extra planning or steps. For instance, I went to a concert for one of my favorite bands the other night, and while I very much enjoyed the concert, the whole day up until going I felt like I just wanted to stay home.

No. I would be incredibly distressing.

^This.

I think the question is too vague. Do I socialize because i interact with others daily at work? Yes. Do I seek out others to socialize with? No!

Yeah, I could do it every day but I don't always. But not every NT does it every day.

I couldn't even do the whole day at work 5 days a week. I started getting physically sick.

I should clarify - I could do about 3 half days a week maybe every other week. If I was going to do something every week, it'd have to be within 2 days or less, I think. I particularly value having whole days to myself, where I don't have to do anything unusual to my routine.

I can socialize for about four hours a day. I get tired if I socialize for too long or with a lot of people.