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Wow, you're so like me it's scary.
Being in the same boat, I'm afraid I don't have any useful advice except to accept who you are and embrace the upsides of being who you are. The friendships I have made in spite of (or perhaps because of) my reticence have been awesome ones that I value immensely. I don't miss having a gaggle of groupies to go to the mall with and rave on about nothing with. I had that when I was in high school and tended to just tag along. It wasn't satisfying then and I learned from that.
Unfortunately, living in my head and dwelling on abstract things so much makes it hard to live in a world where every job advertisement asks for a "bubbly, outgoing personality" and everything is so in-your-face. I have never had a problem with giving presentations or public speaking either, in fact I do quite well at those things... but in an interview situation, one-on-one, I fall down quite spectacularly.
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