unsure about whether or not I have aspergers

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hi my name's max, i'm a twenty year old college student. I haven't been officially diagnosed as an aspie but I've long suspected i might have some kind of form of it. I've always been a shy person even as a little kid and when I first read about aspergers in high school I was disturbed at how similar the qualities of people who had been diagnosed were to my own. I eventually just blew it off as me just being in the "awkward phase" everyone supposedly goes through in high school but now i'm in my early twenties and while the social awkwardness has lessened a bit, there is still this base impairment I feel that I simply cannot shake. Other qualities of aspergers seem to be present in me as well such as the physical clumsiness (there is literally no sport I can play adequately and I've never even learned successfully how to ride a bike) and the focused, intense interests. My friends and family call me a "human imdb" because I'm incredibly adept at memorizing movie facts and trivia, usually without even trying to. In school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability in math that resulted in me always being put in "special" math classes and yet strangely my verbal/grammar/writing skills were phenomenal with my sat scores putting me in the 95% percentile of the whole country for verbal reasoning. I've always managed to have a few close friends here and there but in a broad sense I've never been able to "fit in" socially even when some of my friends were popular, charismatic people. I've only ever had one girlfriend in my whole life and attempts at forming a relationship with other girls since have failed. It's not that I have trouble attracting them as I have been told that by people that I'm a good looking guy and I've had a decent number of girls express interest in me but whenever I try to get close to one I like, I never know what to do and I over-think and end up blowing it. It's incredibly frustrating and is causing me to become more and more emotionally withdrawn and unsure of myself. What do you think, do I have aspergers?

You've a lot of traits that are associated with AS, or PDD. You're a bit closer to PDD, but than again I can't diagnosed anyone... anyways
Welcome!

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

Hello and welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet forums, Max.

Nobody here diagnoses anybody else, but my own discovery did began with realizing I am an emotional cripple.

Welcome to WP!

I'm not one to give a diagnosis, nor am I a licensed doctor (or even close) but traits you described match alot of those I personally have and those of which many others on the spectrum may have as well.

A diagnosis from a doctor takes alot more than a paragraph though, I think it took them like 6 visits and alot of other various things to diagnose me - and then I was 10 and I was completely in the dark of asperger's, let alone autism.

If you were asperger's though it would be alot easier to diagnose early, say 10 or 11, rather than 20.

Welcome and best of luck.