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How long can you be alone without any communication with others IRL ?

I have yet to find that limit, and I'm looking forward to it. I don't get to choose how often I interact with people, but the time between interactions never seem long enough.
I only work sporadic weekends, so I get between one and three weeks alone at a time. Don't know if it counts though, because I still have to interact with someone if I go shopping. Or run into a neighbour. Or get a phone call.... Happens rarely, but still...

Not as long as I would like, usually!

Aside from essentials like asking for things in shops or on the bus, I can go pretty much indefinitely as far as I know - several months isn't unusual. I've lost touch with my immediate family for anything up to five or six years several times without it ever being caused by falling out with anyone. I don't go out of my way to avoid people, and I have times where I can be quite sociable, but I don't pressure myself to socialise if I don't feel like it, and it's not something I would think to do unless someone else gets the ball rolling.

Well, I suppose I could go for most of a day. Aside from talking to professors, I could go a few months. It’s pretty unpleasant, I must say.

With no interaction at all I feel a lose after a couple of days, at two weeks I would be keen to talk. I find a little bit of interaction though is plenty, just a friendly chat to someone in a shop for five minutes, is enough for one/two days. If I had lunch or a cup of tea with a friend (if I still had any) then that would be enough for a four/five days.

Usually I have the opposite problem and feel suffocated and exhausted.

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I've been isolated in the bush and didn't stress out about finding other people as much as I just wanted to find my home. I love solitude and will be able to have plenty of it in my new house where I'm moving in a few days time. I'll be studying while I'm living there though so it's not like I'm going to be able to spend more than an afternoon and night, and the following day on a Friday after uni. And then I'd need to exit my room at some point to make a sociable impression on my housemates. You always have to be vigilant with socially accepted behaviour when your challenged in that area from an ASD.

without communication with immediate family: not long, a few days

other than immediate family: indefinitely

For me I don't think there is any limit to how much time I can spend on my own. I saw that movie 'Passenger' with my son and neither of us could see any problem with being all alone on a spaceship forever. If you really need to talk to someone there is a very pleasant android bartender who seems to dispense alcohol freely and is always available for a chat.