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Is this man interested or mostly just being friendly?

So, I am posting anonymously, not to troll or spam people, but to protect my privacy and that of the current man I'm interested in. I have Asperger's, so I don't read social cues or body language well. I am a mature, aged student, interested in a teacher.

When I was on work placement, he kept peering at me through the classroom windows and would seek me out to talk and to comfort me if I was sad. One time I studied him, as I have a way of doing with everyone who's new to me, male or female. He flashed me big grin that lit up his whole face and I continued to study him for a few seconds, trying to figure out my opinion of him as a person. Then on one of the last days, he was talking about being engaged. I don't know whether this was true, or if he was just saying it to set boundaries, because the staff and students in half the school were talking about 'his crush' on me. I overheard the staff members saying he chickened out and lied about his engagement.

For a few days, I thought maybe I should back off and be less friendly to him if he was engaged and talking openly about it to everyone, even though I treat women with the same friendliness, as I am a bubbly, sociable person in general. So I didn't look at or speak to him in that time. Then, he went and stood in my line of vision and made soft eyes at me, looking at me in a tortured sort of way. I was trying to be appropriate, so I tried to ignore it but must've looked uncomfortable, because the other teacher noticed and told me to help her prepare for class by moving chairs. Then after my class ended for the last day, I was leaving and he was waiting outside in the school yard for me. He sort of rounded me up like teachers do with young people so I couldn't slip away quietly, and he asked me questions about my course and said something like; 'You'll get there, mate.'

Is this man interested or mostly just being friendly?
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