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>Doug perceives others as lacking his anxieties.
This is a very real point
Especially when you're a kid, you don't think anyone is going through the same things you are, you look at them and think "he's doing much better than me, he doesn't have the same problems as me, why can't I be like him?" when in reality they're probably dealing with things you don't know about or having the same thoughts about you. The issues in Doug were mostly pulled from the writers' own experiences, this was one of the things the writer's bible explicitly recommended. They're not uniquely "Doug" problems, other kids in Bluffington likely have the same issues, and real kids definitely have had the same worries Doug had. It's like Styx's Grand Illusion, you think the other guy's got it made but deep inside we're all the same
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