Since about a year before here. [Shaking him would probably be a more efficient way of getting him to talk like a normal person when the topic is himself. In the meantime, he just looks up again.] You think the symptoms matching up is just a coincidence?
[Because he'll more or less believe it, the way he's inclined to believe anything anyone says outside of his limited expertise. It's only a small, buried part of him that can't help feeling suspicious of the notion that his headaches even could be some maybe-treatable external thing, rather than an inconvenience he personally has to push through or manage things around. That seems... wrong. That's not how his life tends to work.]
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[Because he'll more or less believe it, the way he's inclined to believe anything anyone says outside of his limited expertise. It's only a small, buried part of him that can't help feeling suspicious of the notion that his headaches even could be some maybe-treatable external thing, rather than an inconvenience he personally has to push through or manage things around. That seems... wrong. That's not how his life tends to work.]