How do you bond with other people?

Take interest in what your friends are up to. Hang out and have fun, be their when they are feeling down and they'll be there when your feeling down. Talk to them.

To bond you need a few things, something that you both have in common, respect for each other, something that is a bonding agent that keeps you together and in contact e.g. 'Work, school, Facebook' you need to also hang out when you can, its harder to maintain relationships, so its important to know who you want to bond with, you can't just be going around trying to bond strangers

I like to talk about my dad to people. Some people are interested and others aren't. Those who are not I remember to pray for daily.

I read through everyone's advices, and to be honest, I'm so disappointed. I know a lot of otakus don't understand what's socially acceptable or not, but "be yourself" is such a poorly construed advice. While finding friends who have similar interests with you is good and all, you have to understand that there are other topics rather than just anime/games that you can/should talk about. Also, most of the time, it's not because you're a nerd that people are off-put at, but how you handle yourself. Quite a few of my close friends are not into anime at all, but they know how shameless I am (I have too many figurines in my glass cases, a 150cm dakimakura of my husbando, multiple keychain straps of my husbando, other merch of my husbando, etc.), but because of how I compose myself and I can talk about other things besides nerd stuff, they like hanging out with me. I noticed a lot of otakus can't control their urges and immediately go into weeaboo mode, and scream, "Nya!" or "That's so kawaii!" or "Neko desu~" which scares/weirds out people (even if they are anime fans).