I shouldn't, but I look down on "social" people

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I do understand the gist of what you're saying. To me, a lot of NT socialising just sounds like noise. I can't maintain eye contact with several people at the same time, I don't have the ability to process a lot going on all around me and I have severe sensory issues anyway....so yeah, that whole standing in groups whooping and the hysterical facial expressions and.........It's not my cup of tea.
However, what I have been told and have come to realise and accept, is that that really is meaningful bonding to NT people. It isn't false. It's just not how many of us on the spectrum operate.

I prefer intense one on one, meaningful discussion with kindred souls....but I'm an Aspie.
I understand your feeling of superiority, but as you get older it's easier to just accept that that's their world, and you have your own ways. And to value how you are. Being autistic can make one very attentive and a good listener and sensitive. A lot of people, autistic or not, will value that approach to communicating. And honesty.

The obsession with love? I'd say it's more the obsession with relationships you probably find tiresome. Love can be love of anything, I do think it's soulful and important. Just love of a book or nature. The obsession with romantic love is excessive in our culture. You can't get everything from it, it has to be balanced with love of broader things I reckon.

I'm sure you don't have schizoid personality disorder. Just an Aspie who hasn't found their niche and the right social balance yet maybe

E.M. Forster wrote an essay on love and tolerance (click), which is an interesting read.

I am always suspicious of overly friendly, happy, outgoing people. They have no "depth" to them (at least not to me) and i can never get a good read on them so I find them to be suspicious. I would much prefer someone who is depressed to someone who is bubbly and happy because they tend to have more interesting things to talk about.

I consider myself to be quite social for an Aspie but i don't and indeed can't socialise in the same way as NT people usually can. When I go to parties or big gatherings it takes me a while to calm down and acclimatise to the noise and input going on all around me but then i find it fun to pick off individual people to have conversations with (group conversations difficult i cant deal with multiple conversations). I prefer deep conversations on one or two subjects rather than smalltalk which I hate.

I look down upon people in my peers who only accept people who like to get stupidly drunk.

I once knew someone who had lots and lots of good friends, I could tell from his lifestyle, he was always so busy socially. One day I asked him how many good friends he had. He said several tens, maybe a hundred. I then asked him how many friends he had with whom they discussed each other's dreams, hopes, fears, vulnerabilities, failures. He said one, sort of.

The only way to be friends with everyone is to not be real friends with anyone. So I too distrust those amazingly social people who are friends with everyone.

Must be something with the "social ladder", I have more friends than you thus I'm better or vice versa. Or/and that they have been programmed that way and will do it independently of any real value.

Does anyone see the irony?

Tell us..

Not necessarily, but perhaps really good friend is a better term? it all depend on quality, and that is related to time spent. But strictly speaking "best friend" is a missnomer for more than one person.