And some of us, like me, were social butterflies. From pre-drinking days as a little one, to my sales career, to my current job working in a restaurant around all kinds of people, I have always been in the middle of things. My drinking changed me over the years, and I got alternately reclusive and "outgoing" (still), til I was just drinking to get through the days.
Now, being sober, I have found that while I am outgoing and sunny and a lot of the things I was pre-late-stage-alcoholism....I also enjoy different settings and environments, and using that energy in more intimate settings.
End of the day- we're all alcoholics. This particular aspect of our disease is one reason I remember the saying that there are as many types of alcoholism as there are alcoholics - you just never know by looking, stereotyping, assuming or ..... and no matter what kind of drinker we were, we are all better off and better versions of ourselves now that we are sober.