by Basil Benson » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:06 am
"Ehhhh..." Basil was dithering again. " It's not a condition or disorder. I probably should have started with that I suppose. I don't want to downplay legitimate mental disorders with... whatever my nonsense is.
It's...." He was hesitating saying anymore after Amy talked about him talking to much. Maybe he shouldn't be dumping this on Chase...
"Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted things a certain way. Not in an OCD kind of a way, but more of a fussy kind of a way. Like..." Basil paused, and moved the book under his arm out and showed Chase the cover, the sound of a tapping finger.
"Like a hobbit, heh.
I like things familiar. Adventures... Heroics, don't suit me. And I never had to deal with anything overly stressful as a child so the worst case scenario is I might be a little whinger about things, or get a bit too emotionally upset.
And then this happened. And when it happened bubbe went absolutely mental. I got so worked up at upsetting my grandmother, I fell unconscious and broke my head open in the back.
One of the many things I found out in the excessive testing I've gone through is that I have asymptomatic hypotension. Naturally low blood pressure. Normally it doesn't bother me... and it's not caused by any other diseases, I'm perfectly healthy.
But if something works me up more than is really necessary... Like, say, a life or death situation, my low blood pressure causes me to pass out abruptly."