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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

I think it's from being sheltered while in the BoS. The small part where he talks about how it gets hard and pops out white stuff like a pimple is a lack of education/miseducation, not someone having a disability. That's how I see it anyways.

That might be part of it, but like a previous poster pointed out, no other character in the Brotherhood is like that. You even see a quick shot of an aspirant masturbating in his bunk.

There's also the fact that so many of his problems are self-inflicted simply because he can't explain himself properly. Why couldn't he bring himself to simply explain that a Yao Guai killed Knight Titus? It could be a mix of guilt and 'idiot-driven plot' contrivance, but I think there's some credence to the notion that he might be deliberately written as neurodivergent. When the show started I would've more easily written it off as sloppy writing, but the show got considerably better as it went on and the writers proved their chops, so it's easier now to see Maximus' dialogue choices as deliberate.