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When I was studying for the boards I didn't have any social interaction for about a month. After that I felt very awkward for a couple weeks.
 
I was an RA in college and decided to take an on-call shift that last all of winter break. Sounded like a good idea at the time, I needed extra money and my fiancee at the time was going to spend it with me. The technical limitation was that I couldn't leave the complex (it was for an upper classman apartment style deal) but I got it ok'd with my boss that being able to respond to a phone call within 10 minutes would be fine.

Things with my fiancee were rocky and timing always being the bitch that it was, we broke up a couple days before the break which put me alone for a month at the school. Didn't get called a single time during the break for work related stuff, didn't really have the desire to use my "10 minutes away" rule because I was a little depressed, and my family was gone on seperate vacations (parents had taken a cruise and my brother and his wife and kids were out in Mexico somewhere) so I couldn't really bother any of them.

I talk to myself a lot though so if it wasn't for that, I guess I would have went a month without talking.
 
Sorian said:
I was an RA in college and decided to take an on-call shift that last all of winter break. Sounded like a good idea at the time, I needed extra money and my fiancee at the time was going to spend it with me. The technical limitation was that I couldn't leave the complex (it was for an upper classman apartment style deal) but I got it ok'd with my boss that being able to respond to a phone call within 10 minutes would be fine.

Things with my fiancee were rocky and timing always being the bitch that it was, we broke up a couple days before the break which put me alone for a month at the school. Didn't get called a single time during the break for work related stuff, didn't really have the desire to use my "10 minutes away" rule because I was a little depressed, and my family was gone on seperate vacations (parents had taken a cruise and my brother and his wife and kids were out in Mexico somewhere) so I couldn't really bother any of them.

I talk to myself a lot though so if it wasn't for that, I guess I would have went a month without talking.
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so uh..how do they expect you to eat if you can't leave the building?
 
I sometimes do this after I have been in a very social setting for an extended period of time. For example last year I went on a trip with a couple of friends for two weeks. After that, the only thing I said to another person was "hello" and "thanks" to a cashier for about a week. It felt so good. So, so good.
 
A few years ago I had last minute car problems so couldn't go home for Thanksgiving and all my friends left. Didn't see anyone that Wednesday or Thursday. By Friday I was so lonely I walked to the corner store a couple of blocks away and hung out with the guys working there for 20 minutes or so. Learned more about growing up in Lebanon than I ever would have thought.
 
Not counting saying thanks at the store, probably multiple spans of several weeks during my freshman year of college. That was a rough time.
 
Alucrid said:
so uh..how do they expect you to eat if you can't leave the building?
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Grocery shopping? I had a kitchen and all that jazz. A normal on-call is only 3 days, holidays were the only times that the on-call was a big chunk of time and it didn't matter much what you did during those times since barely anyone was around.
 
I've gone 3 weeks without talking to another person but I talk or sing along to a song pretty regularly, so probably only 2 or 3 days with no talking whatsoever.
 
I don't think I've ever gone longer than a few hours.
Even when I'm alone I inadvertently make comments such as "Nice" or "Shit!" occasionally.
As for talking to other people, maximum was somewhere around two and a half days, staying at home for the weekend and studying.
 
I just said "what the fuck" out loud when I read the OP.

Do you not involuntarily blurt out when you read something shocking or abnormal?
 
I make sound effects for half the shit I do, I sing along to the radio when I'm driving, and I talk to my dogs all the time. I couldn't imagine what it's like to go a week without making any sounds.
 
DragonSworne said:
I just said "what the fuck" out load when I read the OP.

Do you not involuntarily blurt out when you read something shocking or abnormal?
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Since I started watching Game of Thrones, I can't even count the number of times I've blurted out "What the fuck".
 
Stumpokapow said:
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This image is infuriating. I hate that movie.

I've gone most of the day without talking, but usually find a way to communicate at some point. I'm pretty okay with solitude, but not to that extent.
 
krameriffic said:
You don't ever talk to yourself? Or sing along with a song? Or babble at the dog even though he can't hear you?
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i used to talk to the dog all the time, but it sort of lost it's appeal when he stopped looking at me confused

daycru said:
Depressing thread.
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Didn't mean it that way. i'm not depressed or anything i don't think. just kinda stuck in a rut with a bunch of unfortunate circumstances lol.

i'm not lonely or anything i don't think... i mean. i post on gaf alot and the dog is still sorta here
 
Even though you don't have a need for it, why not go out to eat? Or seriously sign up for a dating site and just go on a couple random dates.

I've done the latter and it's pretty enjoyable even if it doesn't go anywhere.
 
Graffgor said:
Even though you don't have a need for it, why not go out to eat? Or seriously sign up for a dating site and just go on a couple random dates.

I've done the latter and it's pretty enjoyable even if it doesn't go anywhere.
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i don't really have any money to do that. i just graduated and i've been trying to get a job. my parent's have been going through some family stuff which is costing them a ton of money so i'm trying to be as cost efficient as possible

the dating profile isn't a bad idea, but i'm back in my home town. i don't really want to date people from my high school that are still here. it's a small town. plus i (hopefully) will be getting a job and moving out soon.
 
I'm a bit of an introvert and enjoy plenty of alone time, but I don't think I've ever gone more than 24 hours without talking to someone.
 
People talking to themselves is actually a thing?

I would go for weeks only talking to bar tenders and bakery staff if I didn't have a job :\
 
Even though I'm practically schizoid, I've still never gone more than a day without talking to someone, my mom calls me all the time.
 
Longest I've gone is 1 and half weeks. Just a weird set of circumstances where I was both so busy with work and everyone else I interacted with was via IM or text for some reason.

I actually did see someone during that time, but we were so tired we just did *affirmative grunt* at each other and went to our respective beds.
 
Seraphis Cain said:
I spend 98% of the week completely alone. But I end up talking to myself out loud a lot, so I don't usually go a long time without talking.

Why I am admitting this here?
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I find myself doing the same, My wife and kids are out of town and I'll talk out loud to the pets, or just some random thoughts/reactions now and then, Though it's partly for the novelty of being able to be loud and not have someone wondering WTF I'm doing. Not sure how I'd be if it was a regular thing.
 
I'm tired from a busy week so I decided to stay home today while the rest of the family is going out doing various things. I probably haven't talked in two or three hours, and it'll be another three or four until anyone else comes home. This thread is making me feel weird so I'm going to start talking to my cat who's lying on the bed.
 
Usually a couple hours I guess is average since I'm working I'm talking constantly and I live with my family so I'm always talking to them, then friends when I'm out

But I was alone one night a few weeks ago and there was no one on skype, fb, tiny chat anything so it was just me and my thoughts, that sucked
 
I talk to myself all the time. I dont think i ever went more than a couple of hours without talking.

Except when i'm sleeping.
 
When I was unemployed and had nowhere to go and couldn't afford to do anything, I remember going days at a time without speaking. Once I noticed this I made it a point to start calling people, going outside and talking to neighbors so that I didn't become a hermit.
 
I've probably never went over 24 hours without talking to someone. I find myself to be quite a solitary person though.
 
I go long periods of time without talking that much because I only have 2 close friends in real life. I dunno, I'm very social and I talk to new people when I get the chance, but no one ever sticks. They're all just acquaintances and I always have to do the initiating for everything (as in none of my acquaintances ever asks me to do anything) so I never bother trying to get any more friends because its way too much effort. For most people it just comes naturally, but for some reason that just doesn't happen with me even though I'm very open. I actually haven't made any new friends in the past 8 years.
 
Two months or thereabouts, not counting any polite "thank you"s to the guy who ran the corner store.

I just stopped going into work one day.

Dark times!
 
I never go more than a few hours without talking. It could be at a game I get frustrated with, singing along to a song, talking to myself or to an actual person.

I would literally find it impossible to go a week without talking
 
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