"Yeah, I do. You don't get it. Everyone's counting on me." By everyone, he mostly just means Mabel. Maybe Soos. Everyone else is less counting on him and more thinking of him as just a kid which amounts to the same thing: pressure to achieve the impossible. "Normally I'm the guy with the answers. I come up with plans, and I... figure things out. And I can't just... give up."
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But it's so hard and he's so tired of dead ends.