has anyone here gone to a party before?

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The only time I'll happily go to a party is if I went with a man I really loved.

Yes I've been to several parties in the past but due to sensory overload and anxiety, I was drunk or tipsy at all of them.

I don't go to them anymore.

I actually like parties very much, as long as there are LOTS of people. If it's a gathering of just a few people it feels too 'intimate' and socially demanding. I hate family reunions for this reason. I always sit aside somewhere with my laptop while people have pseudo conversations just for the sake of being social. That's so irritating.

I was invited to a birthday party once but the parent hated me becuase I was so hyper and just plain weird so they called my parents to come get me before the cake was served and presents were opened. My mom tells me I was "causing trouble at that blonde girl's party" but to this day I have no idea what I did wrong. Her parents hated me anyway because I was so weird. I was never invited to any other parties before or since. I think I even had to talk her into inviting me. I was eight at the time.

I had a birthday party once when I was 15 at my house. I only had about 8 geeky acquaintance/friends there and we mostly drank soda, ate crap like chips, and played games until it felt awkward. I guess I could go to a party if it was more of an event to do with games or art... but I could never go to a party based on drinking, drugs, music, dancing... etc.

Parties aren't like this when you're in your 20's so I'll probably never go to another one. I'm anti alcohol to the extreme. My father was an alcoholic when I was young and I have repressed rage toward alcohol. I'll never drink because I don't want to do to my family what he did to his... I don't have a family yet... but might as well not drink in advance lol I'm also not sure I'd be safe in a place with alcohol. I mean it wouldn't be safe for the drunk. Honestly drunks step on thin ice around me to the point where I don't want to find out how upset I can get Also I'm just not into anything with loud booming music or blaring lights... so my image of what a party is is definitely not something I want to be a part of.

I guess I'd go to a party with a theme and point like my 15th birthday party... but that was kinda just more of an event than a party. A party is a celebration. My acquaintance/friends didn't give a crap that I was turning 15... common soda and video games

I really don't understand what the point of a party is - I can only assume that normal people find these activities "fun" which is why I completely miss the point. I used to go, years ago, but pretty much stopped because I'd just end up chain-smoking on someone's porch wondering when it was polite to go home and have a cup of tea.

I was going to parties while i was drinking, because it is only "normal" NT activity I could take part in.
I cant dance.
They are talking about girls during parties and I am not sucessfull on that isue.
I can talk with guys about cars and computers, but soon they ll realise i am a nerd.

I can't drink because I have a heart condition (2 is enough), I can't dance because I have Dyspraxia, I can't socialize because I have Aspergers, I can't dress up because I'm a boring person...... So what's the point in me going to a party? The only thing I can do at a party is eat.

Another reason why I don't like drinking is because I have a fear of feeling sick and being sick.

I've been to plenty, and I've learned to control my tendencies there for the most part. Small parties with a few really good friends are great. They understand me and they're used to me and I can be myself and get drunk/stoned/watch UFC and have fun. Large parties with a bunch of random people... it's terrifying. I survive though.

I find it harder when I'm somewhere where I can't go home when I please. If I'm at a party somewhere local, I can stay there until I start becoming overwhelmed and ''exhausted'' of putting on a front, and I could just come home. But if I'm somewhere far and they've arranged someone to drop me off home, I have to sit there and wait 'til they are ready, even though it's past my ''party limit''. I feel rude just asking them to take me home right now, because they might be having a good time and might not want to leave 'til they're ready, so I've just got to endure the rest of the night.

Another thing - I'm a day person. If I'm going to take part at a social event, I like to do it in the daytime, rather than at night. When it's night time, I like to be tucked up in bed, or just hiding away in my room in the evenings. I like to be out and about more in the day. I don't like the dark (I'm not scared of it, I just find it bleak), I'll prefer sunlight, when there's more activity going on in the streets.

Don't take this personally if you have kids but the only good thing about being out and about (and on buses) at night time is there ain't so many screaming brats about!

Yeah but not for ages. I'd only want to go to one now if I could go along with someone I knew well. And that isn't looking likely any time soon lol

I have been to many parties and I never like them. I do however love throwing my own parties. My own environment, with my music, my friends I chose to invite. I feel in control and relaxed when I am the one having the party. When it's someone else's party, there are too many unexpected variables.

I tried throwing a party for Halloween. Most of the people who said they would be there never showed. My theme was 1920s-30s bohemian lounge with hookah, cigars and absinthe. I guess that was too boring. *shrug*

I have, and sometimes they can be fun if the people there are ones you know. Alcohol usually helps me, since it brings me out of my shell. Plus, it helps if other people drink because they don't notice if you are awkward or anything--- they become awkward, too! It evens out the playing field. If there is music playing, you can dance and you don't even have to speak to anyone necessarily. And most parties have food.
If a party is not fun, if there is only strangers or if I feel out of place, I make an excuse to leave or be alone.

Yes I've been to parties, most of them when I was a kid. I've been to more grown up parties too, I went to an old friend's 16 birthday party 2 Novembers ago and I really enjoyed that because she had a disco. The only thing I didn't like was the slow dancing, because I didn't have a dance partner but my friend's friend was dancing with her and he let me join in so we could dance in a 3, which was nice of him. I went to a big family gathering for my late uncle's 70th birthday 4 years ago, it was boring though and I spent most of the night in the other living room watching TV. The other birthday parties I've been to recently or had aren't really parties, but just hanging out with a few friends and having tea at mine/their house.
When I was younger I used to have halloween parties.

I enjoy parties a lot, my favourite kind being small ones with close friends and family.

I would have came to a party like that. Most people are flakey and unreliable, I would not take it personal. Every time that I or either of my two roommates have thrown a party, most who say they will come do not. But the people who truly matter to me do, and I have a good time anyways.