No friends, joining a church group. I'm mostly a science guy.
Is there anywhere else I can go where people will tolerate my autistic shyness for the first week or so?
See if there's a UU church around you. They welcome science to the point of having lots of atheist members. Also seem to have a higher percentage of aspies than general population.
Join a dojo, you'll learn helpful skills, get fitter and it's considered rude to talk during training.
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What are your interests?
Where would people with those interests be likely to hang out?
Go there.
I recently started taking a foreign language class. There's a good number of people in it, you're all strangers but forced to talk to each other but everyone is autistic and shy at first so it's okay. It's working out nice for me so far.