It's really more then being stoic. Her character and personality really is so strange that the other members, which includes Applejack, who has a stoic brother, and Fluttershy, who is also usually quiet herself, are really put off by her and don't want much to do with her. Not to mention that her interests really are so consuming that she comes off as one-dimensional to the other characters (her answer to literally everything is rocks).
If there were ponies like Maud in the show, then maybe her behavior would be more accepted, but she's the only character who behaves in this manner (I'm fairly sure that the rest of Pinkie's family isn't that strange either... I'll have to read that chapter book again or something...).
While I wouldn't be so quick to internet diagnose her with anything specific, I really feel that Maud definitely falls under the Ambiguous Disorder trope.
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That's The Theme Park Version of autism. It is the inability to understand social interaction, not just apathy towards it. And since she deftly points out what's going on at the end, socially, that does not describe her.
People have the right to ignore social interaction without it being classified as a disorder, until it negatively affects their wellbeing. Since Maud is currently studying for a "rocktorate", nothing indicates that is the case.
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As someone who actually has Asperger’s, I’d like to point out that whatever Maud is definitely is not that.
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Okay, I get that Maud is unusually stoic for a kid's show, but I think that identifying her as being Autistic is an overstatement. She's just The Stoic who has a very specific set of interests.
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