42. Trying to Escape Boredom

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “For me, boredom has always been accompanied by this heavy, itchy feeling in my stomach.”

[Panel 2] NARRATOR: “Paired with bad impulse control, I used to do stupid things just to see:”

[Panel 2] ALIEN: “what happens if”

[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “because anything was better than being bored and feeling itchy.”

[Panel 4] MOM: “What did you do to the couch?! Why would you do that?!”

[Panel 4] ALIEN: “I don’t know.”

[Panel 5] NARRATOR: “I really couldn’t explain what drove me to do those things.”

[Panel 5] ALIEN: “I don’t know.”

[Panel 6] ALIEN: “I don’t know.”

[Panel 7] ALIEN: “I don’t know.”

[Panel 7] SIGN: “MOON”

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “Now, I found less obvious ways of drowning this feeling out:”

[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “I needed music or a TV show in the background to do chores,”

[Panel 1] SFX: ”(?)”

[Panel 2] NARRATOR: “When I watched something, I felt the urge to do something with my hands.”

[Panel 3] NARRATOR: “So, I snacked a LOT.”

[Panel 3] ALIEN: “No hand, stop!”

[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “I drank caffeinated tea”

[Panel 5] NARRATOR: “and I doodled in class.”

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