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A young boy has doodled obsessively since he first held a pen. His compulsion intensifies until his home and mind are do | dG1fSFhvTEFXNTNOZzA
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00:00I remember my auntie saying to me, it's okay, it's just that he's a genius, and geniuses
00:18sometimes go mad. My whole life I've been living in fantasy worlds. He would draw for 15 hours
00:31from the minute that he got up to the minute he went to bed. Sam turned up into the class
00:37in his doodle suit, my work, and helped me spread the doodle virus. I kind of had visions
00:43of all these people looking and thinking he's just a lunatic. I started to get known around
00:50the world. That was really the point where everything took off. There was a big size piece
00:55of work from Spring and sold for a million dollars. It was like he was setting out this
01:00plan for the world to be doodled. When we met, it was like a Disney movie for me. It made
01:08me feel that I could do anything, because you can do anything in fantasy land.
01:15Less than 24 hours after we met, Sam told me I want to find a big white mansion and just
01:25doodle over it. I think that Sam found himself caught up in a nightmare somewhere in some land
01:33that he no longer had control over. He just looked at us and said, Sam Cox is dead and
01:39I'm Mr. Doodle now. I just wanted him to go away. The only way out was to kill Mr. Doodle.
01:52As a mother, the worst fear you have is losing a child. Losing him mentally was just as scary.
02:03I feel like I was born to draw, but I'm a human being. In that moment, I realised that I need
02:21Mr. Doodle as part of my life. Yeah, that could be cool, yeah. I could do the next one.
02:27I'd rather you didn't, if that's okay. I want him to be part of my life.
02:34But you will find a place. He wasn't being Mr. Doodle, he was being himself.
02:42He's not really going to live in the house, is he?
02:56I was going to live in the house.
02:57He was going to be part of my life.
02:58He's speaking to me.
03:06He's speaking to me.
03:11He was talking to me.
03:14Let's go of this.

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