Hey. Finding the balance can be hard... One thing that some people find helpful is to engage in social contact in a way that is manageable for them. This could involve trips (by oneself) to a museum, art gallery, mall, supermarket, cafe, library etc. It could involve walking somewhere where other people are likely to be walking too, and where small nods and 'hellos' can be exchanged. A kind of social contact without pressure and obligation to be cheerful or funny or attentive or whatever.

Would those kinds of forms of social contact seem manageable?

Not talking to people at all... Brings on a form of sensory deprivation (hallucinations and the like). Doesn't take long...