Hate myself sometimes having less friends and being single

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I seem to think the reason I haven't meet anyone lately or in a relationship with someone is because I feel like I'm too into reading books I like reading and trying to write my own, watching films, playing games and so on like a stereotypical geek and I'm single because I don't want to go out on friday or saturday night to a bar, club and have a lot to drink and I have few friends and they don't do that and don't usually go out as a few I know have severe autism and struggle to socialise with other people they don't know and I don't have hardly any NT friends since leaving school and college as back then I quite shy and less confident to socialise with them and for one of those reasons that's probably they didn't want to socialise with me because they probably didn't understand me and left me alone while chatted with everyone else in my classes. It does annoy me a bit that girls seem to think someone who likes books and games lack confidence, are boring and less attractive and mummy's boys staying at home on a weekend while everyone else is out partying. than someone who for example regularly goes to the gym to work and goes out regularly to meet women at bars and clubs. It seems as if going to these places turns into an attractive and likable person. I think I struggle at times to appreciate who I am and the stuff I'm interested in and beat myself in my head because of it and think ''This is why you haven't met someone because you don't get out more'' when clubbing and drinking isn't my style and struggle to convince myself that I am NOT the only one who doesn't like clubs and stuff like that.

I wish I had some really great advice, but I am in the exact same boat. At least we aren't alone. I'm sure plenty of us here are the same.

I've never been to an actual nightclub in my life. I do feel alienated because of it. The people at work (the ones that are my age) all go out at weekends and drink together, and sometimes I can't help but feel excluded. I don't like to ask if I can come along, because they know I don't drink, so they will just say "oh it's not really the place for you if you don't like drinking". I know that if I did drink, I might be invited out with them, because that is what they are into. But bars and clubs encourage you to go there to drink and dance. The music is too loud to be able to relax and have a conversation among your friends, even NTs admit it's loud and you have to shout. So the only thing to keep you there is to drink, unless you're a really loud extroverted "life and soul" of the party and you are popular and have that sort of voice that is loud and draws positive attention to you. But I'm not like that, and neither are a lot of NTs, which is why most NTs make themselves drunk at these places.
They're just lucky they can bring themselves to drink without overworrying about their conscious state or the after effects. I worry too much about the effects of alcohol, which is why I avoid drinking altogether, which makes it too easy to stay indoors relaxing in my comfort zone every weekend night, out of the way of all the havoc. Plus there is more crime when people have been drinking, and I don't want to be caught up in any of it.

You can order a soft drink, and tell them it's a Rum and Coke.......

I am in this situation also. It sucks to see so many in my age group being social that way, but I simply cannot do it. Add to this the fact that I am allergic to alcohol, my chances of fitting in become even lower. The few times that I tried to go out were spectacular failures as I just do not have much in common with most bar patrons.

A bar is a terrible place to meet people. But if I can go with a friend who has similar interests to a quiet place where we'll each have water or wine or a mai tai, and talk for ages - that's really good. I tend to be serially befriended - one friend for years, then another. The gap in between is bleak.

Finding a new friend now is hardest, because I'm 68, disabled, house-bound. I used to hang out in coffee shops early in the day, but I can't even do that now.

Anybody got any hints on how I could meet nice introverts?