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Are friends possible to make?

I'm 20 years old, and I've never had a friend. My definition of a friend is a person that you spend time with in your spare time outside school.
I have never had anything even remotely similar to that. I'm generally getting along with almost every person in school, but my conversations last no longer than 20 seconds, so my relationships are extremely superficial, polite and without much conflict or emotion. I've been playing World of Warcraft for five years, which I consider a negatively contributing factor. When not playing computer games, I've focused all my energy on school, making me the very best student at school, however, I've recognized that choosing this path has isolated me even further. I have no talents such as drawing, playing music, doing sports or anything else. I'm pretty certain my ADD has kept me from these activities as they require a certain amount of concentration.
I realize most people create friends by attending parties at which they consume intoxicating amounts of alcohol. At least this is extremely common in Denmark. I feel, however, that it's impossible for me to attend these social gatherings as my anxiety creates partial or complete shutdown depending on the time after the beginning of the event.
I suppose most people respect me intellectually and parly tolerate me socially, however, getting intimite is exceptionally difficult, both for myself and other people. I simply don't connect sufficiently with anyone at all, and before I get too close, people either end up rejecting me because of various things, and because I become too eager, or I pull back because I'm afraid of being rejected in the first case.

I'm curious as to how you people are doing. Do most of you have some friends or have had? If so, could you tell me how I can make any? I'm really lost about myself and other people. I despise being this emotionally and socially clueless, but I presume I'm rather badly affected by Asperger's Syndrome - even scored 186 on the test.
What to do?

Yes.
Although a real friend is hard to find.

These days, its harder than ever to make a friend. I'd start by going to places that reflect your interests, and seeing who shows up.

Short answer, yes.

One of my closest friends is a cousin. I mainly have 2-3 people I talk to outside of family and even that is on rare occasion. To really make a true friend you will have to come out of your comfort zone and it takes work. It can be exhausting for me, and the older I get I tend to see it as more of an inconvenience and the risk vs benefit is just not in my favor.

It's all pointless anyway. Sometimes I wonder if I should simply empty this bottle of benzodiazepines all at once and off myself. Life isn't worth living without any social connections at all. There's no purpose because nothing can fill out the void created by lack of social interaction. Taking a few hundred milligras of methylphenidate helps, but that's merely pathetic...
Screw life and all relationships. I don't even belong among the people at this site, in Mensa or in any other ridiculous place this physical world has to offer.
Still waiting for my spaceship to pick me up and take me back home... Could be arriving soon... Maybe...

So you cant make friends with people who like to play WOW? Maybe you can try that, find people who are really into playing it so you guys can share a common bond.

Yeah making friends is real hard. I didnt have any till I was 18. I started out by mainly finding a few people and start following them all over the place...not something I recogmend. I did that till I was 20. For me what works is trying to be open to getting to know people. Trying to talk to people. Targetting people who youd like to get to know better and keep trying to talk to them, join them say in the cafeteria. Then eventually initiate planned activities with them. I realize it takes a lot of work and a lot of nerve(for me due to social anxiety) to execute. But I found you gotta kinda go outta your way to talk to people.

Try and find people on your own "wave length" what I mean is try and find people who are compatible with you same interests ect. Stay away from the people with the bully type mindset. ( my parents and my family) and drug users. Most homosexuals are great to make freinds with. fellow aspies maybe but stay away from the tough guy beer drinking types they can be dangerous. Best of luck.

I have a nice amount of friends. And I have a few best friends.
Making friends isn't too hard, but it can be at times. Especially with Asperger's Syndrome. Even though I'm still not sure if I have AS yet, it was hard to me for a while to make friends. I started improving in my Sophomore year (Although, I've always had friends, I've never not had any). How I make friends is that I just go up and start talking and hanging around them. One of my best friends I just met in a math class and one day we just started hanging out. And that's like with most of my friends. I've met them through class and just started talking to them.
This may not work for you from you said in your post. I'm a pretty social person and I'm pretty normal for the most part, just sometimes have little quirks. How I would recommend you get friends is go to clubs that have people sharing similar interests as you. That's always a really good way. I'm really interested in theater and photography and through those activities, I've met some of my very best friends in the world to me. You said you like WOW right? There probably is some kind of WOW social group, you just got to find it. Maybe start a WOW fanclub on campus? You could try that.
But, another thing I'd recommend is that you work on your communication skills. Communication is a very important skill in a friendship. A lot of people who rather be friends with somebody they can have a conversation with that doesn't last more then 20 seconds.

Well, I hope everything works out for you! Good luck!

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I don't play WoW anymore, and I never really bonded with anyone in the game. I quit the game because it became an obsession that obstructed any kind of personal development. I succeeded in persuading some class mates to play WoW, but they suddenly started ignoring me without any logical reason when I wrote to them, which left me rather depressed and paranoid. Later they quit the game for good, leaving behind without saying anything. After having left WoW, I realize I have no talents or interests I could possibly share with people of my own age. Only truly strange or quirky ones. I used to be quite reluctant to participate in clubbing activities even if I was invited (which rarely happens), but now I've become desperate enough to try it. I've never consumed alcohol either. I don't quite feel I belong at such places anyway. I'm no good at chit-chatting, and I actually don't know anyone from my class even though I've been with them for three years. They don't get my kind of humor and don't share my interest in theoretical and scientific discussions. I'm not certain if there's even a place to begin. They will probably just ignore me and reject me, and I will end up standing in an isolated corner feeling anxious and hopeless. I'm truly clueless when it comes to making perverse or interpersonal jokes, discussing tedious sport or discussing what happened in the last episode of Paradise Hotel, X-Factor or whatever - just don't get why those things are interesting. A lot of my issues originate from intense bullying earlier in life. My class mates would lock me in shets for hours, poison me with mushrooms, make me drink maggots or harrass me in various other ways. Because of that I will never trust another human being again. I'm extremely anxious and paranoid, and I'm certain people exclude me from their lives because they perceive me as a threat to their existential quality. Ofcourse, the bullying continues. Now they simply ignore me and treat me like a social outcast. I know everybody talks ill of me behind my back and make jokes about me. I don't even believe I'm being delusional. This is reality; I'm just a loser, a chemically imbalanced failure that needs to die.
Okay, I don't know why I just wrote this. It's completely pointless anyway. I'm sorry that I turned down all your great ideas. I suppose you people are simply vastly better functioning than my pathetic self.