Does this girl have Asperger's?

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You can tell she has it just by what she says about herself. Also how do they know she didn't learn to be that expressive? Maybe she has watched lot of documentaries or TV shows and watched how people move their hands and stuff and started to copy them. Maybe she has watched lot of movies too and watched the characters move their hands and watched their facial expressions and decided to mimic them. Or she could have been born with that normal trait and you don't need to have all the symptoms.

Some aspies are copycats and they copy other people and have no understanding of it. They just do it because they want to or because they want to be like everyone else.

I can't tell if her facial expressions were appropriate and hand gestures or not.

If she made videos of herself interacting with others, it'd be much easier to tell. As it stands, I just can't "see" the Aspie traits in her.

I just watched the video and yes, everything about her seems very Asperger's to me.

I didn't watch the whole video, but I watched a lot, and she reminds me of myself a lot actually. I could sit and reel off a story like that, I could talk on and on and on, but if you stepped in and asked me a question I'd probably just stop because I don't know what to say. I think generally Aspergers in females presents differently than it does in males, and I think most of them are higher functioning.

I've always been a mimicker; facial expressions; gestures; I sometimes catch myself mimicking ones on people on TV, though I didn't realise I was doing it when I was younger. According to my parents it's how I learned to talk. I watch people all the time, I analyse them, and I think I emulate them pretty convincingly; looks like she does too.

And since when was AS something you can see just by looking at someone? If you could tell just by looking at someone, why would we have to be diagnosed? Everyone presents differently, and none of them fill ALL the criteria. I went to college with 17 other teens with AS or HFA, some were just like her, some I never heard their voice, some couldn't even remember to have a shower a few times a week, some couldn't stand to hear loud noises, some just made grunting noises all the time, some seemed a lot normal than her even. You CAN'T tell just by watching a video of someone, those comments are just ridiculous.

I actually took the yawning to be a either a stim and/or a sign of nerves. Even some NT's seem to yawn a lot when they are nervous.

As for can't be bothered with maths, something that I have learned from people who I know with learning difficulties is that it can be very easy to find something you can't grasp boring.
This person will interpret it as boring because they can't understand it, and dismiss it, without even fully realising themselves that they are struggling to understand it in the first place.