Just tell people you don’t like dancing, or karaoke, or whatever enough times and eventually they internalize it. I spent years cultivating a reputation with my friends and now I can just vanish for an hour at any party and nobody bats an eye. Need my “me time”. New people sometimes think I’m cold or don’t like them but they either learn and that’s cool or I don’t see them again and it doesn’t matter.
Just tell people you don’t like dancing, or karaoke, or whatever enough times and eventually they internalize it. I spent years cultivating a reputation with my friends and now I can just vanish for an hour at any party and nobody bats an eye. Need my “me time”. New people sometimes think I’m cold or don’t like them but they either learn and that’s cool or I don’t see them again and it doesn’t matter.