for anyone here that has moderate-severe autism spectrum disorder: How do you expand your social circle as an adult? What coping mechanisms do you use in public?

My social circle has shrunk to just myself and my therapist, and my social worker (who I might lose because I make too much money) and it's very depressing. Reading about the experiences of other people with ASD online is even more depressing because apparently this gets worse, so I was wondering if there was someone out there who was moderate-severe that managed to make a social circle?