The mystery in plain sight is solved. Dean has what 50 million other kids get in the world but recovery is possible. He has IGA specifically. I have been complicit in causing his depression and withdrawal from life. I have been giving him heroin for 10 years,
digital heroin.

Neurological resets take up to two months but to recover the 8% of lost white fiber connections beneath his brain's grey matter will take much longer, perhaps a lifetime.