[twobitshifter]

Jeff does shrooms and listens to Jane’s addiction. Jeff’s parents put him in a psychological vice to make their American tale worthwhile. They’re unhappy people and the only solution given to Jeff to end their collective unhappiness and fighting is Stamford. Jeff makes it, but Stamford and startups won’t work with depressed Jeff, shrooms and Jane’s addiction so he adapts and creates “Michelle”, the face of a successful happy well-adjusted person Jeff couldn’t really be. It works too well, he succeeds, grows closer to his family, but Jeff is still Jeff. When his father is sick, he can’t manage to put on the happy well-composed face. He gets angry that who people think he is isn’t who he is, so he reveals Michelle, which is revealing that teenaged unhappy Jeff is still inside, and he never wanted to be Michelle but his parents forced his hand. It gets worse, he gets a family but again it’s a relationship based on Michelle and not the Jeff of Jane’s addiction and shrooms. He knows that he can’t keep up the hiding, but he’s damaged, so he just leaves.