Introvert/Extrovert Asperger's

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I get batty when I'm not around humans for more than a couple days. So I'm extroverted. For me the introverted parts come from stimuli overloads and need of quiet time to reset the brain. But when I get going in conversation (especially when I'm not anxious socially), it energizes me.

Introverted and grumpy.

Used to be all introvert, now more like 50/50

I always test as 100% introverted, but can come out of my shell in the right situations and with the right people.

I am introverted and shy.

Generally an introvert, but becoming more social with greater opportunities.

I don't do socialising or friendships I only socialise if I have no choice like when my hubby has a mate at ours and I don't feel like going off into the bedroom
but im not shy though ,I say what I think and if I feel like speaking up in a big group of people then I will do it regardless

I take the introversion to be in large part a learned response to a long series of failures to connect. One comes to find the pathways involving minimal sociability have greater potential for reward and less potential for catastrophe. (I'm not saying this in a negative or pessimistic way; every life path in life has its problems, and we all must seek our most optimal way. Our aspie disadvantage isn't that we're stuck on the lousy path, but rather that there are relatively few guideposts on the roads less traveled. The difficulty of our quest either makes us smarter or subjects us to a higher rate of attrition. Or maybe both.)