his breakdown went like. he was sludging along thru school and not getting into college and shit, moving slowly and mindlessly depressed and anxious, and he kinda forced himself to the extremes of either end- he's either clean, neat, put together, and slightly high strung, or in a state of complete collapse, can't leave the house can't leave his room can't leave his bed, with not a lot of middle ground between those two points
it's because he has a breakdown when he was like 19 and reworked a lot of his personality in an attempt to not rot in a puddle in his parents house until he died, and he practiced how to speak clearly obsessively and at some point an accent snuck in there and never left. it's definitely not a thing he chooses to do conciously
"this is not only due to your bad posts" they say, pelting me with small rocks, "there are many reasons for this"