In college I knew this normalfag.
The English teacher had separated the class in teams of two and we just kinda got stuck together. His life wasn't going well and since he was stuck with me he figured he might as well use me as someone to bitch to. His parents were divorcing, his gf left him and was fucking him over with the rent, shit like that. I just let him whine. I couldn't empathize because autism so I'd just kinda nod and say "that sucks", shit like that. Sometimes I'd offer concrete advice, which I since learned is something you should not do when people are talking to you about their problems (I think that's dumb but I don't make the rules).
When we graduated and went to uni he bounced back on his feet and got a full life, while I, as usual, was just existing. One day he asked if we could get a beer together, I said sure because why not. We ended up quite pissed and turns out he really appreciated my top 1% nod game in college. Apparently I was the only one he could whine to because nobody else wanted to hear about his problems.
I mentioned I was a bit lonely and he told me he'd make me meet people if I wanted. Thus followed a few months of social outings every week, he'd always have me tag along, dinners at the pub, parties, the works. I met a lot of people, most of whom I disliked for various reasons but there was a few I got along with, and one in particular I'm still friends with despite my life taking a turn for the worse lately.
A few things I learned :
1) normalfags hate silence but rarely have anything worthwhile to say. That means that you can tune out 90% of what normalfags say as most of it is just filler, speaking for the sake of speaking. One mistake I did was try to read too hard in everything, as I said it's mostly all just bullshit, relax and take it for what it is. If you speak little but you're always on topic and on point, then your silence will be forgiven by some, while others will perceive it as arrogance, haughtiness or shyness.
2) socializing is just a ritual and much less chaotic than it looks like. You just go from pre-approved topic to pre-approved topic until something is a match for both people and then you wing it. For autists, the biggest challenge here is boring the person you're speaking with because the topic on hand is a hit for you but not for him/her. Normalfags love to speak about themselves, so that's what I'd let them do. It's crazy how "close" they can feel to someone they know almost nothing about just because they are the ones speaking. Another option is telling funny stories that happened to you or fun(ny) stuff that you did, but as we don't have any of that shit, mostly you'll have to play the enabler and intervene only on topics that interest you.
3) you are actually going to dislike most people you meet, and the obverse will probably be true too. There are just too many variables, and for people like us who've got weird personalities and/or restricted interests, it's even worse. So don't get discouraged if you're not making tons of friends right away.
4) if you're in uni, having weed on you and learning to spot people who might be down will provide you with a decent topic to discuss and also lower your social inhibitions. It's a very normalfag thing to do but if you're trying to be a normalfag, you might as well go all the way (this is how I met the one guy I still hang out with sometimes).
I have to say that the normalfag life isn't what it's cracked up to be at a distance, it's exhausting as fuck and once you get into a social circle you have to keep it lubricated all the time else you can easily fall off of it, especially if you're in the periphery. Eventually I just told my normalfag enabler no more, I had enough, that kind of life isn't for me. In retrospect it was a lot of work and very little of what I would consider fun. Staying alone in my room, playing vidya or otherwise doing things I want to do is much more fun than having to cope with this shit.