I have worked with a kid with aspergers before (in the school helping him keep on task all day). I'm not sure how indicative his traits were of other kids with aspergers.... and he had a worker with him to help him interact with his peers and stay focused at school so maybe that made all the difference. So see a doctor real soon, and then check out all options available.
He was highly intelligent for his age (I mean like HIGHLY intelligent) but somehow he wasn't as socially developed. His main trouble was his attention span. It would last a few seconds at a time, literally. He would be in the middle of something and just stop and get this far away look or fiddle or become enraptured by some object. He would start something and lose attention immediately. His attention was attuned to whatever interested him, but nothing else. And, boy, if he was interested in something he knew it up one side and down the other, he became an expert.
He had to wear sweatpants every day. He would not wear anything else, because he has a thing for the texture and surfaces of things. He liked the feel of the cotton sweatpants. He would also become distracted by the texture of things, like he would stop his activity to just rub the crack of a folding kitchen table repeatedly.
With his peers he didn't understand other people emotions, he couldnt "read them." He couldn't tell if they were mad or happy or what. And teachers could be peeved at the class and he would never notice their temper and choose that time to raise his hand. He couldn't react or respond appropriately sometimes to other kids conversational advances. He had a quirky way of talking, his inflection would be put on the wrong words. He had an advanced vocabulary for his age.
He also has odd mannerisms like knocking his fingers together or turning his fingers in awkward positions alot.
So, in short, he had his quirks, he was awkward socially but smart beyond belief. He just virtually had no attention span. All in all, if he can make it through school, I don't believe some of the social stuff will matter too much. That will smooth out with time. People with aspergers go on to lead normal lives, get married, etc. In fact, many are far more productive than the average person. I think I've heard some of the greatest people in the history of the world had Aspergers or believed to have had, including Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo DaVinci, Vincent Van Gogh, and Mozart, and a dozen others. And to be honest, before I ever knew about these famous people with the same condition, I couldn't help but sense that despite all his quirks and social awkwardness that I was in the prescence of someone very very special. Someone that may be someone very important one day. After being with this boy, even for a short time (I was a temporary filling in), my opinion is that Aspergers wasn't as much as some kind of disorder as it was something unique and special that made him "him." The permanent worker felt the same. Everyone who knew him felt the same.