I don't talk to them.

>>82688804
You can get away with not socializing at work? I didn't know that.

>>82688795
>When your coworkers finally broke the ice and asked you what do you do outside of work
This never happened.

>>82688795
talk their ears off about my autistic hobbies so they'll never want to talk to me again

>>82688795
i worked at a restaurant so everyone was a giga normie who knew how to not hurt my feelings

I lie and say something sanitized they are similarly interested in since they always hobby talk first or i pretend i want to learn how to something they are proud of knowing so they seem important

>>82688820
yeah, I just talk to them work related things. At lunch I just seat alone listening to music.

>gay coworker asks each other coworker about their taste in music
>finally gets to me
>watch myself sperg out about this dead artist I worship
they hate when you never talk and then suddenly talk a lot

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sleeping desu

>>82688795
I read a lot, work out a bit, that's about it
Occasionally on my day(s) off, I'd walk around somewhere with no direction in mind and just enjoy the place for what it is

Walked around a mall and had ramen at a Japanese place
Walked around a park and saw folks taking wedding photos
Walked into a mosque and just sat there
I'm not even muslim lol

>>82688795
1/2

Before I started working again I used my free time indulging in respectable, socially-acceptable hobbies that require some effort, (im not strong-willed btw it just makes me feel better about myself) so I was able to say I read, play the violin, hunt, and do a whole bunch of other stuff.

Ironically though, it hasn't done me a lot of favors. I work in a restaurant so as you can imagine most if not all of my co-workers are your typical burnouts that can't commit to anything. They're not even robots yet they talk about video games all day.

One of them whom I was closer to at one point started reading again (he said he used to do it more) when I recommended a book to him. He read two full-length books in a row but then a coworker recommended him some trading card game and his ADHD brain just sputtered out. A year later he's still spending the money he could be using towards getting a car towards this instead.

Another coworker recently went out of his way to tell me he'd like to go hunting with me. I told him to do the online course to get his license. He just said "Well I got a lot going on right now." and even though he gets two days off a week, it's been weeks now and he hasn't even googled it.

That first coworker got really interested in the violin after one night I brought it over and played for them (inb4 cringe). He kept asking/saying all these things like "how do you do this" "how do you do that" "woah it's tuned in fifths like the circle of fifths!?" (he def learned that from a youtube short) "how much is one". I think I offered to let him borrow my old one after I upgraded. At first he was just about to take it but like the next day he said, "well I think if I get my own I'll be more motivated to play it". Then he started complaining about how his insurance premiums went up (he can still spend $120 on a pack of cards apparently), and it was just thing after thing so I ended up giving it to a different coworker.

2/2

I almost think I should've just kept to loser hobbies. At least then I could relate to them more. I'll go back to school one day and hopefully get a job with people with a longer attention span but yeah the respectable hobbies thing kind of backfired on me

>>82688795
vidya. as a moid this is basically the default answer so no one is surprised

>>82688795
In the year that I endured waging, I just said that I stay at home recovering from the week mostly. It was also known that I was going through a life-changing bereavement that happened just weeks before I started. I was also doing some city walks at the weekend with my friend, so I'd mention that.
Though I agree that I don't want to get too personal with colleagues, as they are all potential back-stabbers. I despise all the office politics shit. TFW no autist friendly job where I can be in an office, but never have to speak. Work wouldn't be so insufferable without all the forced extraneous bullshit.

i list off hobbies that i dont actively participate in anymore but have enough experience with to sound convincing

>>82688795
>im a gooner i like to goon

>>82688795
Was honest and told them I mostly tinker with computers and play video games. And sometimes drink beer alone or with a friend outside. Left out the part about being a coomer, of course.
Was almost expecting them to think I'm pathetic but instead they said they envied me for actually having money and free time, because a lot of them are married fathers with mortgages. I remember having a pretty expensive laptop delivered at work from another country and when they saw it, they said "you can tell he's still a free man".

>>82688795
No
I play up the "I'm an autistic robot" joke as a smokescreen to never tell them what I do
>hey anon what are you up to this weekend
>oh I just stare at the wall until monday
>hey anon are you a gamer
>nah I just power down when I go home