Is my boyfriend's texting fit an aspergers meltdown?

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Since you seem to wonder what this was, I'm guessing this isn't normal for him. If so, it could be something set him off. And although in my most "complete" meltdowns I'm not sure I could have managed texting (never tried it), I've had other, atypical ones where I was able to type, write, whatever, at a rapid-fire pace. I'm hyperlexic, with a drive to write in any case, so I'm not sure how my experience would apply to him.

And I'm not sure how to read the conversation. If this is normal for him, I'd say he is an insecure jerk, as the other commenters have suggested. If this was out of the blue, and not normal, then it isn't that different from a few times something has pushed me over the edge and I've felt driven to communicate while in the process of melting down. These were not so much physical meltdowns, but mental ones, awful death spirals in the mind, spinning into self-destructive chaos. They're no more fun than the regular kind, and sometimes worse, in their own way, because it is possible to do so much more harm in that state. And if that was the state he was in, I can pretty much guess what was going through his mind - that he'd as good as lost you anyway, and the uncertainty was tearing him up, so he might as well light the match and burn the whole thing down and get it over with. It was the psychological equivalent of punching himself in the face. (I've done both, so I know whereof I speak.) That is, if this was unusual for him. If it's normal, he's just being a douchebag.