Could i have aspergers?

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Long but please read, Ok so im 13 years old (girl), i have a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, and their is no denying that! yes, i do have social anxiety but their seems to be more to it than just that , like the anxiety is part of something more. I know this is not a way to self diagnosis or whatever but i would like an indication and your thoughts, ok so my mum suspects that i do possibly have aspergers, and its very likely that my dad does, but my mum has been through enough getting me my current diagnosis that she feels im doing good enough at the moment that i dont need to be labeled as having "Asperger's" though its very likely that i do in fact have it, i am not going to school at the moment and im determined i never will go back , i just go to a local education group by the government, ive tried more than 5 less than 10 schools, only one of which i didn't mind, but my mum still had to drag me in every morning. I hate social situations, i usually become a follower and cause i look "pretty" and "normal" i always seem to get befriended by the bitchy popular girls, and i just tag along with them and barely say a word.
Some things about me:
I find eye contact awkward , not difficult but awkward, i force myself to do it but i end up thinking so much about if i am looking at them correctly that i begin to not listen to a word the persons saying.

i am very mature yet very immature for a 13 year old girl

i make dens in my room and sleep in them

i have an obsession with air soft guns and i love physics

i dont dress like most my age , i am comftable in jeans and a tucked in t-shirt

i get distressed if my weekly routines disturbed, i missed one day of school one week cause i was sick ( a tuesday), and so i found it to difficult to go back until the following monday,

I have NO friends , i only comunicate with about 2 other people around my age who lives in my area and i have grown up with , but they are barely friends and we meet occasionally when their free and bored

I freak out to loud nocies ( i hide it when im with others and suffer in silence), i especially hate motobike sound, it FREAKS me

i love memorising pi

I have a incapability of making new friends, theirs just something about me that dosent make friends, and if i do somehow make friends i soon somehow distance myself from them.

Im awkward in social conversations and i dont know what to say or do.

i am hyper sensitive to clothing and up until the age of 11 i had to wear my hair straight back with nothing sticking out

I follow others my age is social situations , which i hate doing but its how i survive

You get the idea?

I have many more unusual interests ect.. i also find it hard to show emotion, i do have it but i find it hard to show, i havent hugged my mum or told her i love her in years and years and years, too difficult for me. i bond best with animals, their less confusing.

So any indications? i dont know if its worth asking my mum to push for me to get a diagnosis, cause really it is effecting me, im not at school, i have no friends.

Please help. p.s my uncle has a diagnosis of high functioning autism and my dad has Asperger traits, and so does my cousin. i scored 34 on AS test. not looking for a diagnosis from here , just indications and opinions

It sounds very likely that you could have Asperger’s Syndrome. Many of the symptoms you describe ( social issues, trouble with eye contact, lack of friends, maturity/immaturity combo, hypersensitivity, specific obsessions) are classic signs of AS. Heck, even your long post is an indicator of in depth thought that commonly shows up with people who have AS (a large percentage of the posts on here WrongPlanet are even longer).

There are free Asperger’s tests on the internet if you wish to self-diagnose, although, I’d check the validity of the website I took it on before trusting the results it shows.

I'd like to apologize. I should have been clearer. I wasn't recommending using the online stuff as the ultimate answer to whether or not this person has AS. Just as something that could give a more accurate one than she already has, considering her parents are not going to bring her to an expert.

Sorry.

There is no such thing as "asbergers". You might have "Asperger's" though.