>>31683297My best friend can't carry a conversation for the life of him either and I constantly have to initiate most of the subjects but we get along amazingly still. That's actually the same case for two other close friends of mine as well, I just find socially awkward people to be very genuine and easy to get along with. As long as there's a common ground, social awkwardness just isn't a very big obstacle to me.
I might be selling myself too much here but I'm sure there's a good amount of people who think the same way, we all have flaws but people are willing to look past them, if you let them.