Can you guys connect to "normal" people and form friendships?

I don't seem able to make friends with anyone that hasn't been very online or a 4channer. Any coworkers I've tried befriending goes nowhere and interacting with them feels really restrained and slow in some way or like I'm reading from a script. The only one I did befriend in a job once ended up being a channer, like I smelt him out almost.