Seems fine for me.
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I'm not sure Maud's non-social personality and fixation on rocks necessarily qualify as a "disorder". Non-tropers, for example, probably see our fixation on tropes as "odd", and I'm sure most of us would argue that we're mostly normal. Still, I'm fine with leaving the trope in and seeing how wiki magic plays out.
For what it's worth, Maud mostly strikes me as extremely kuudere. I've always thought there was a case for Pinkie Pie having an Ambiguous Disorder though, somewhere on the manic end of the attention deficit hyperactive spectrum.
Yeah, I don't really see her as having a disorder either. She's The Stoic, and has a very narrow set of interests, but she seems to be able to read social cues perfectly well, well enough to realize that she isn't getting along with Pinkie's friends.
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Would Ambiguous Disorder be an appropriate trope for Maud? Currently its listed in the YMMV section and I would like to move it to the recap page since it isn't a YMMV trope.
However, I'm also well aware that Ambiguous Disorder is still a rather touchy trope that tends to annoy people who would rather not get into debates on whether a character deserves to be internet diagnosed with a behavioral disorder or not. Autistic spectrum disorders especially. Maud's character is quite unusual so it also wouldn't feel right if that aspect went unremarked.
What are your thoughts on this?
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