Yes my DD has friends outside school from Rangers. Others, who like her, would rather be hiking across hills and discussing quantum physics rather than pop music and boys.
During GCSE's it certainly got better. DD1 still doesn't bring friends home or hang about with her peers outside school, but I hear names of people she's chattered to and worked with in class.
She's just started Sixth Form and I suspect (and hope) it will continue in this vein.
The effect of dyslexia on making friends is very hard to explain in a few words here, but it started at nursery and goes right to the core of who she (and I are).
Somehow we don't pick up subtle social cues, as well as muddling names, faces and who said what. Other DCs pick up on this and choose to be friends with someone else. At two/three they are not being mean it just happens.
Along side this runs the fact we don't pick up and therefore don't care what our peers think
Teacher asks a question, DD1 puts her hand up.
My non dyslexic DD2 scans the room, sees if anyone else knows the answer and then puts her hand up if someone else does.
Likewise, DD1 wouldn't pick up social cues from adults and was brash, loud in in their face, but as most adults are more tolerant of children's foibles, she still found them easier than her peers.
Again generally DCs are a bit shy with adults and this makes them uncomfortable too.
Finally her peers (and teachers) can't put her in a neat academic box, because she's really clever to talk to, but her hand writing and spelling are awful. Not having neat work consciously or subconsciously sets her apart from the girls who should be her friends too.
Me having similar difficulties, not being local and not finding it easy to make friends with the village mums didn't help either.