Might he be an aspie?

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I've been friends with this guy for a long time and about a year ago we kinda started dating and i have been wondering if he might me and aspie or somewhere on the autism spectrum. I'm new here but i would be really thankful if someone would help!

He's really quiet and doesn't talk much with other people, he's been that way all his life as long far as i know, he's not very social but he's not too bad at it either but i have realized he's unable to talk about emotional stuff, he's like really unable to, not like usually men are or like people who have some kind of trauma are, it's different. He completely shuts down when I try to talk about emotions or what we have but it's not like he's afraid of my emotions too much, because recently i told him how i love him and made a big scene about it how i don't know what's happening between us because he never tells me what he feels or what it is we have between us. I've made a big scene and had many mental breakdowns like that and he's still with me but he STILL doesn't talk about his emotions, if he was some kind of jerk it would have been easier for him to say something just to calm me down even if he doesn't feel it. He could leave me if he didn't love me but he doesn't, it's not like couldn't find another girl, he's pretty good looking and all. Now i've started thinking if i have been really an idiot for being so mean and so much pushing him to talk to me about his feelings, maybe he feels it but is unable to talk about it.

One thing i noticed is that when i start to talk about emotional stuff and expect him to do that too he shuts down and kinda starts to shake and some muscles in his face start to twitch a bit, he becomes even more quiet after i try to talk. One thing he does is that when he's out with friends he might just disappear and go home without saying anything, also he loves to sound smart and tell facts about thing that might really not interest others.

He has said few times that he likes to talk with me and stuff like that, and once we talked about how we share the same brain an how it's all so right and how we think alike and have common interests in science etc. Also he told me once he feels so good right now and he doesn't want me to leave when we were hugging. Once he told me that he loved me but it was so hard for him, i saw how he struggled to say it, i took about a month for him since he once told me that he "realized something about us" in a message and push him for an hour to say what he meant with it, he has never said it again since or anything of that sort. I sometimes can feel in his words that he cares and when i ask if it's all wrong and we shouldn't be together and i give him the choice to agree or argue against it he chooses to argue against it but he never really says anything more. I also can see the love and admiration in his eyes on occasions but other times he's so distant when we are together and it seems like there's something wrong with him but he says there isn't.

Sorry for the long post! please help me and tell me if it could be the case and if it is, what should i do?

He very well could be on the spectrum, though he may not know it himself, or may feel awkward about it.
It took me 2 years to summon the courage to seek a diagnosis of my suspected Asperger's and I'm in my 40's, I can only imagine what it's like for someone younger, struggling to understand why they're different, struggling to understand - much less explain - their emotions to a friend they are just realising may be more than a friend.
If you love him, then tell him you love him, but accept that he may have trouble saying it back to you, and let him know you understand that he may have trouble processing and expressing his emotions.

If someone like you had been around when I was young and wanted to be my girlfriend, my life would have been a lot easier.
Just accept him as he is, support him, be his friend, and make him feel accepted, loved and understood as he is, without him having to put on a pretext or façade, and in time he will show you that he loves you by his actions, and the way he will make you feel.

Diagnosis or not, he is the guy you like and he likes you, so don't talk about emotions too much with him, and just enjoy his company and make sure he enjoys yours.
Friends like you are what he needs and you can help make his life easier better and easier by accepting him as he is understanding him, and letting him know he is loved; everything else is just a bonus.

Thank you so much for the reply, I think he doesn't know why he's different and I'm pretty sure he hasn't been diagnosed. I so want to be there for him and be with him and enjoy his company and i really truly love him as friend and more, i have just been afraid that he doesn't feel anything like that for me and he's using me or something... but no i think that would not make any sense, because he's been trough so much trouble to be with me.