Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-5903643-20180421152752/@comment-679780-20180422120528

To me he ticks some habits I find common among those with aspergers.

For example his friendship with Blaze is a rather dependant one that when he is in doubt he turns to her for advice. When he ends up in the past and realise Blaze was not with him he is rather distressed about this.

Meeting new characters like Amy also come to an unprepared suprise to him. Most people with autism usually struggle with socialising and making friends, but Amy Rose is the sort of person who is capable of seeing good qualities in others and making unlikely friends that she was capable of striking a friendship with Silver up until he attacked Sonic. Will bring that up again.

While most heroes in Sonic's world tend to do what they need to do to save the world, Silver became fixed on his objective in order to save the future almost to a fault. Throughout his travels with Amy his only distractions were realising how beautiful the world was before Iblis ruined it, appreciating beauty in things often taken for granted by others, such as deserts or forests that are common to everyone else. Some with such autism are capable of seeing beauty and potential in things that others cannot. As one was aspergers I too found that over-thinking problems or trying too hard on assignments sometimes caused more problems than good. Silver was so fixated on saving the future that he resolved to murder to do so with little thought for anything else. He was driven to kill the Iblis Trigger because he was gullible to believe that will solve everything. When Amy realised he was going to kill Sonic she gave him a stern talking to and abandons him which left Silver to reconsider his actions more morally until Blaze found him and together returned to the task of saving the future but with more of a moral awareness.

When Blaze "had to go" he was extremely upset by this. When someone with aspergers make a good friend, they're friends for life and of course be very upset by the loss. I do ship Silver and Blaze together of course because I believe Silver does love Blaze and she hints she likes him for who he is before she departed, but it's understandable that SIlver just wholely likes Blaze to still react the same way for her departure.

And one last minor thing is believed that the mechanism of aspergers appears to result from developmental factors that affect many or all functional brain systems, as opposed to localized effects. That is to say those with aspergers have areas of the brain more developed than other parts. In science fiction that involve characters with psychokinesis or related powers are usually regarded as "mind powers" and result in their brains having more developed functions than others even if these developments don't make them super-intelligent of the like. Silvers abilities are no different as being recognised as "psychokinesis" means that his powers derive from his own brain. It could mean in Sonic's world that the autism spectrum could be regarded as a form of evolution where two-hundred years from now may grant X-men like powers to individuals. (And yes, that indicates that Blaze too can be on the spectrum however is less naïve and more reserved than Silver, but in Sonic Rush still indicate behavior similar to Silver.)