Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-142.51.108.254-20150922190330/@comment-24.138.138.160-20150924064007

So while Locus and Felix were already argued thoroughly in the 'Locus more mentally unstable than Felix' thread, Aspergers is not something he would be suffering from. That disorder causes a lack of higher level language skills (unfortunate would probably not be his catch phrase), war would not have broken him, as empathy would not require to be broken in the first place, Locus is a control freak when it comes to his emotions, managing them expertly and tactfully, while a person with Aspergers tends to lean more into wild mood swings (source for this one may be innacurate, its personal experience with a friend who suffers from the disorder) and while he does show some signs of it, the symptoms aren't there. PTSD is certain with him, but I doubt that is the only thing, for a soldier personality to emerge for him to hide behind he probably has a Dissociative Personality Disorder, as I have also covered on two threads now. Meta doesn't have a split personality, or at least, Maine doesn't, He had several other minds implanted in his own, then violently removed. But if we take that guy who had the failed SPARTAN II theory, he may have been mentally unstable beforehand, I mean, all it takes is one mis-tweak in the neural link to your suit and now you have an excess of Alpha brain waves in your frontal lobe leading to aggressive behavior and overactivation of the fight or flight instinct. As far as other symptoms go, he seems the closest to being autistic, he speaks very little and in short bursts. This is what a lot of people with mild to severe Autism do without treatment or therapy to help manage it as it takes a longer time for them to comprehend the way they can organize words to convey a message. He fixates on specialized fields, objects or hobbies that allow or help him him to succeed (see: soldier, natural strength, brute shot, expression of personality and effective tool). Also, he appears to be the angriest of the antagonists, and, much like an Autistic person can (and personal experience says: will) hold a grudge for a really long time, sorta like how he got that revenge on the sleeveless insurrection soldier for shooting him in the throat (though this is a bit of a weak argument, its mostly in the way he killed him, making it slow and very painful). Also, Autism does not affect intelligence, I would like to stress that, but it does have an effect on suggestability if the right pathways are chosen, and someone who is literally in your mind, would probably figure out those pathways really fast and get you to say, kill your friends to collect A.I fragments?