Recharging alone isn’t antisocial. It’s how you come back as someone worth hanging out with.

Time by yourself is not a withdrawal from other people, it is how you have anything to bring them. Skip it long enough and you turn up short-tempered and half-listening, counting the minutes until you can leave. Nobody enjoys that version of you, including you, and adding more plans never fixes it.

Work out roughly how much alone time you need and treat that number as real. For some it is an hour after school, for others one empty evening a week. Take it before you are desperate for it, and go back out because you want to rather than because you should.