HOW TO TELL A 54 YEAR OLD MAN THAT HE MAY HAVE ASPERGER'S SYNDROME?

I am a 14 year-old student who has been diagnosed with mild Asperger's Syndrome MYSELF. When I started secondary school, I noticed this really weird teacher. He had some very strange habits, such as rocking backwards and forwards and wearing the same blazer day in, day out. He ran a club, which was my club, and was very funny but rude, and he called me an 'antisocial twit'. Despite this, I still liked him. Two years later, he became my teacher. The other people in my class used to throw things at his head, put their feet up on the desk, shout over him and general abuse him. He got very flustered and panicky and one time, ripped up a paper aeroplane that someone had thrown at him while shouting at us. Another time, he ran out of the classroom crying. But, even though most people were horrible to him, I got along with him really well. He was on lunch duty and he stopped the queue to chat to me, and he said that he liked my hat (that it would be good if Normans were invading and I would be protected from spears - he's a History teacher) and general stuff like that.

I now think he has Asperger's and has seen it in me but I'm not quite sure. What do you think?

1. He has a special interest, board games.

2. He stands in the middle of the corridor and stares at the walls. I had to deliver a note during registration, and he was just standing where it was really quiet, staring at the art on the wall. He didn't even blink when I went past.

3. He does strange things such as eating lunch in his office alone, with no lights on.

4. He rocks back and forwards and talks to himself.

5. He enjoys routines.

6. He appears to be confused, but he seems to be just daydreaming.

7. He is extremely rude. He swears and insults other countries all of the time.

8. He flaps his hands and has weird motor tics.

9. He wears the same clothes every single day. He only rotates the colours. You can predict what he's going to wear.

10. He is incredibly intelligent. When I was walking with him on a school trip, he started translating the Latin and French on graves, extremely fast, and he didn't get any wrong. He can also do Maths quickly and can remember birth dates and death dates of every single Monarch/Historical figure etc.

11. He doesn't bring notes to lessons because he MEMORISES them. They are sometimes TWO PAGES long.

12. He has a visual memory. We always used to watch a video and he couldn't understand why we didn't remember EVERYTHING.

13. He has TERRIBLE handwriting. He has to print every letter in block capitals and even then it's still sometimes illegible.

14. He is antisocial and over emotional. He put a newspaper up in another teacher's face so that she would leave him alone. He cries all of the time, in videos and when people tease him.

15. He is 'traumatized' by his past. He went to a very posh boy's school, which I will not name, and apparently was abused terribly and he said that we should never mention it to him because he 'Doesn't want to talk about it.'

16. He was so surprised when I gave him a Christmas card, because I don't think a student had ever done that before. At the end of the year, I gave him a card and chocolates and got really teased about it, but he was so happy. He looked like he was going to cry, and then he ran down the stairs (he always runs down stairs) and went into the office. I walked past and he was showing the head of department what I had given him and was really excited. She was confused because she's really popular. He was also amused because I told him the school nickname for him in the card, which I made up, and he pretended to be really angry but then laughed.

17. He randomly talks in other languages and accents.

18. He once gave a girl his jacket because she kept complaining that she was cold and then she was freaked out a little. He was only trying to be kind. She accepted his offer and he stood there freezing for an hour. I felt really sorry for him, but thought that he was very generous.

19. Other teachers AVOID him on purpose. We were walking back from assembly and he was blabbering about stuff, and this teacher went off in the other direction without saying a word.

He's not my teacher any more, but he still makes an effort to talk to me and remember my name. He once shouted out and when I asked what was the matter, he said 'Oh, I just wanted to make sure that was your name.' and we laughed. He has a good sense of humour, and he let us watch Blackadder in his lessons. He talks about his mother fondly, even though she died recently, and broke down in tears after remembering her. He is married and has two children, and he’s in his 50s. I think that he may be too old to have had a diagnosis, because Asperger’s might not have existed when he was younger. Do you think he has Asperger's? And do you think I can approach him about this? If so, how?