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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.