>The acronym for ""Not in Education, Employment, or Training"
>Hikikomori
>The term Hikikomori comes from Japan, meaning: A shut-in that does not leave their home or bedroom for prolonged periods usually for about 6 months or longer. Most Hikikomori are also Neet although, technically if you are employed or take online classes remotely at home but still do not leave your house/room for months or even years at a time you are still A hikikomori (but not a NEET.)
>A NEET isn't necessarily a Hikikomori nor vice versa. You could be a Hikikomori NEET. But if you are a NEET that does spend a moderate amount of time outside your house/room you are still a NEET but you are not a Hikikomori.
I'm alright. 48 hours into fermenting this wine and I'm already drinking it, yeast and all. Not sure how much I'm going to drink though, I gotta stay fresh for tomorrow. Getting drunk for dirt cheap, but also gives me time to be normal... ahhh... what the hell. I can still function this way, but I hope I don't fuck something up again. Fuck, I've really gone down the hole. HAHAHAHA! Oh well, it'll be okay, I think.
Question from a non-hikki, asking for a friend of mine:
what do you think would motivate you to go out and not be a hikki?
Owen Adams
>what do you think would motivate you to go out and not be a hikki? having a gf
Christopher Barnes
>what do you think would motivate you to go out and not be a hikki? living someplace else, having the money to live someplace else
Chase Scott
I'm a former NEEThikki. I miss how comfy it was. But since my family is kinda poor, I was always a bit antsy about not working.
Are there any hikkis here that live on their own with neetbux/inheritances?
Dominic Cook
guess I'm a Hikikomori now I used to call myself a NEET, but I've been employed working from home for a year, so I stopped. I leave the home every few weeks maybe, sometimes to buy renal catfood from the vet, other times to go do something at the bank, and lastw eek I went to visit my sister. But aside from that, I almost never leave my room for weeks.
Owen Reyes
Tell me about it robot, I'm having one of those days too
Nathaniel Sanchez
Can USA neets please give advice on how to get healthcare? Please help me.
Forgot to mention, gonna be riding a train for around an hour. Please excuse me if I don't reply back immediately.
Jackson Peterson
What programming language do you want to learn?
Brayden Ortiz
You would be hikikomori if you didn't have a social life user hikkis don't have social lives they don't go visit family unless forced to.
Robert Baker
If you leave your house or room regularly to go to school or a job out in society or if you have a social life you are not a hikikomori a hikikomori is a shut in that completely avoids social contact or has very little social contact with society. They don't leave their homes/rooms for months or years at a time a hikikomori is most of the time a neet but some work or take online classes at home.
I don't have a social life though. I have no IRL friends and I literally never go out unless absolutely necessary (like picking up special cat food). The only reason I visited my sister was because I hadn't seen her in years and I was basically forced to go by the family.
Gavin Powell
Then you're just a recluse or a pariah. Not a hikikomori or a NEET
Robert James
The internet is my healthcare. I assume you would have to apply for Medicaid or what ever, but benefits like that usually require you to be making a certain amount of piss poor money, a child, or some form of disability.
I don't know for sure, and I don't think most of us will bother finding out except for those NEET's who are just looking to play the system and avoid working.
Juan Perez
Nope, dead wrong. I can make friends easily, and I'm also respected. However I choose not to go outside or talk to people.
Ian Carter
>Then you're just a recluse or a pariah. Not a hikikomori or a NEET
Gunjy stop gatekeeping not every hikki is an agoraphobic piss bottle type.
Kayden King
Probably better asked in /jp/ but do you guys know any good waifu apps? Not really in the dress up sense, more like some thing/some one you can talk to every day for a little bit.
I just need some place to write shit >deleted all social media years ago and cut ties with all school and online friends years ago >be loner for 3+ years >tried to reconnect with an online female friend >she had no idea who I was >spend 2ish years trying to get @ her >she was about to dismiss me for another guy when her seeing me on webcam suddenly made her like me >I've become so jaded and misogynistic that I'm not even sure I want an online gf This is the point of no return lads, I doubt I can connect with anyone anymore.
TFW no NEET bf to greet me when I get home and binge anime with. TFW no NEET bf to provide for financially as long as he cuddles with me and lets me suck his unkempt, jungle bush dick while he looks at hentai.
I want to be a neet again but im too old now fuck me i want to die jesus christ someone help me i dont have anyone.
Liam Williams
Any language you feel the most comfortable with is fine. Object oriented would be preferred as that's all I've ever tried to learn (C++, JAVA), and I'm fairly new to programming, but I'm honestly not picky.
More importantly than the language, I want to understand the methodology behind the methods used when programming; as I don't think I have very abstract thought processes, and to see how someone else more talented than I programs. For example, I had a homework assignment to covert one data type to another (not sure if this was the exact wording of the assignment) without casting or using any functions from any libraries, and another assignment to complete a task with a recursive function. I was stuck, and an acquaintance was easily able to do it by converting to inputted data to binary (or something like that). Meanwhile, I was stuck for quite a while on figuring out how to solve the problem.
Anyway, let me know if you're interested. Any feedback or knowledge you can pass along would be greatly appreciated user.
Joshua Brooks
Oh, I even tried to get a better feel for programming by making games in Unity and GameMaker Studio. Didn't go well as it was my first time making anything, but It was very awe inspiring realizing just how much work it must take for professional game developers to actually make games, the same goes for the engineers that make these development environments. The advancements these days in technology in general are fucking amazing. How do people like John Carmack even exist? Look at the people that made Linux. All for free. Fucking incredible and humbling.
Ayden Baker
Then you have absolute geniuses like Terry Davis that make their own operating systems!
What if you have a NEET/hikki soul or former NEET/hikki? That mindset just doesn't up and disappear. That urge to just go home and not go out again when you're at work or school never goes away, always right there with you like a shadow or a cloud hanging over your head.
Leo Ross
>More recently, researchers have developed more specific criteria to more accurately identify hikikomori: >1. spending most of the day and nearly every day confined to home, >2. marked and persistent avoidance of social situations, >3. social withdrawal symptoms causing significant functional impairment, >4. duration of at least six months, and >5. no apparent physical pathology to account for the social withdrawal symptoms. Significant functional impairment is key here. As a recovering hikki I can say the defining aspect of the condition is reacting to pressure with complete social withdrawal. You don't choose the hikki life, the hikki life chooses you. If I felt my mother was going to bug me about something, I would piss in bottles to avoid the chance of running into her and only leave my room to get food around 2-4am. Some moms of hikkis leave food outside their doors because they cannot handle face-to-face interaction. That's on the extreme end of the hikki spectrum.
Some hikki do have a few friends like Satou in the NHK but they usually have none because their withdrawal for months makes it difficult to maintain friendships and people get offended for being ignored. A hikki doesn't ignore them on purpose. They just feel pressure from that interaction and react to it with withdrawal to avoid psychological distress. If you can be a social butterfly but choose not to be, that's not a hikikomori condition. Nothing wrong with being an introvert but people need to understand the difference. Being a hikki is an actual mental condition that needs treatment so you can live your life and enjoy being an introvert without distress.
Ah, this is a comfy thread. I'm no longer NEET but I think I'll try and live the introverted life like mentioned.
Matthew Evans
>, I gotta stay fresh for tomorrow. why?
David Harris
>Being a hikki is an actual mental condition that needs treatment so you can live your life and enjoy being an introvert without distress.
This not to mention the majority of hikikomori are mentally ill and are either on the autism spectrum or have a personality disorder which affects their social integration pic related.
>TFW no NEET bf to provide for financially If it wasn't for this I wouldn't think this was bait. I feel like its either bait or you would just use my financial instability to push me around to do what you want.
Isaiah Myers
I'd like to get fucked by a big black man but I have not interacted with anyone outside the family in 10 years and I don't leave
All I know is C and Python. If you struggled with GameMaker Studio I'm not sure how I would be able to help. That's the easiest way to get into programming, just looking up GMS tutorials to make simple games.
It takes a lot of time, effort, and persistence. Even with mastery of a programming language it never gets easier, just more complex. You really have to enjoy problem solving without any help because you will be doing a lot of it. If you don't enjoy that you should definitely consider a different degree. It gets increasingly difficult the more advanced it gets but that's what makes it fun for programmers. They don't do it because it is easy but because it is hard.
Jack Martin
I totally understand. I'll keep at it to see if it really is right for me, but even if it is somewhat difficult, I do enjoy it. Thanks for the honest reply.
Luis Jackson
I have a kind and caring personality, not bullying. I'd hope you would keep the place homey and respectable, and give me sexual and romantic pleasure, but I wouldn't boss you around for kicks.
I basically do this already just in small bursts. Escorts / rent boys. I'm the sad fuck asking for an overnight or a weekend (even did a week once though that was pricey), not for a dozen orgasms (though orgasms happen), but mostly for the cuddles and companionship.
Gabriel Gray
>Got an appointment at the hospital for a mental health assessment on Tuesday I am fucking shitting it.
>tfw having trouble learning full stack web dev d-does that mean... im a brainlet?
Hunter Carter
Texas, upper 20s.
Sebastian Sanchez
Ok nevermind then, thought you might be someone I know, but she's from Minessota
Daniel Smith
I've decided to save up $500 to buy stuff for making dakis. I will fill up the closet with my waifu and have one for each day and special occasion. I will become the Minoru Kokubunji of dakimakura and own the rarest of rare custom dakis that no money can buy. People will beg me for my dakis and secret. Then I will take seven disciples under my wing to transmit the secret art and science of dakimakura. They will go out into the net and world spreading the love and joy of daki for all lonely hearts, rich and poor. Everyone will have the daki of their dreams. And our dakis will be created through a consecration process that makes them radiate bliss. Anyone sitting in their presence will feel calm and happy, and that bliss will radiate out into the whole world itself. The powers of our waifus will combine through dakispace and the bliss they give will become even more powerful, creating world peace itself from our bedrooms.
im glad that my mom pushed me to finish high school and almost never skip days or else I would have been a hikki-neet for even longer without a HS degree. Was always super reclusive growing up and known as that kid who never left his house, doubt anybody would be surprised at what I became...
If you're having trouble, you're making progress! I'm always suspicious when things are too easy. When things get easy you get complacent, and when you get complacent you make the really big mistakes that cast you into refactoring hell.
