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I don’t have the time or inclination to watch that, but just the photo and the lead suggests to me that this father is essentially stuck in adolescence. At a time when he and mum are supposed to be helping their children “transition” from teens to young adults, no, all attention must go to him, because he’s in his butterfly stage now. I am beginning to suspect that these people simply seek to keep reinventing themselves because it requires so much attention and interest and support (medically, psychologically, and socially), it’s like being a 15 year old girl forever. So rather than learning how to be independent adults, his children are learning how to be his support group, which will be their lifelong roles. And of course, a lot of them seem eager to be on camera, on stages, doing something that garners them an audience to relive this process over and over. It never ends. The father is stuck somehow in puberty and the whole family gets stuck with him. So, yes, I’m sure they are “closer than ever.”