If you recharge alone, you’re not antisocial. You just refuel at a different station.

Energy works differently in different people, and nobody picked their setting. Some come out of a crowded party lit up, some come out of it empty and needing an hour of nothing. Neither version means you like people more or less. The trouble starts when you treat your own wiring as a flaw and push through until you are short with everyone.

Notice what you are like two hours after a big group thing. If you run low, build the recovery in before you need it: the walk, the room with the door shut, the ride home with no music.