Just NEET, aka pretend hikki.

No, I'm a NEET. Feels bad man.

Over the last month, only times I've gone out is to get groceries and other essential stuff to live. So I guess so.

I'm a hikki-ish NEET

Yes.

>>48310738
You're probably not going to do anything about it, so you should enjoy it while it lasts.

100%

I try to party and stuff, but you know

I have a job and go out side with friends... so, no?

Having asperger syndrome, I feel scared to go out and meet people in the world, which leaves me one choice; stay in the place I feel comfortable, aka my house.

Yes, and a NEET, as that usually implies.

NEET

waiting for schedule
just stuck in my house...

I would be if I didn't have to work.

>>48310849

Eh, theres a difference. You can be a NEET and still have a social life. Hikka implies you have no social life and are more or less a hermit

Just NEET. Might get employed this friday.

When I get employed I will become a freeter.

>>48310704
i would if i could be
instead i have to go to work everyday hoping i don't lash out and kill someone, or myself

>Go to work 5 times/week
>Go to college 3 times/week
>Hang out with weeabros and watch anime on Fridays

No, not really. Perhaps that short year or two period after I graduated from high school where I didn't leave my house for an entire summer, but now? Not at all.

I do spend copious amounts of time inside, regardless.

apart from going to work almost every day i am as hikki is you can get

>>48310873
What's a freeter?

>>48310930

Freeter is a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students. The term originally included young people who deliberately chose not to become salary-men, even though jobs were available at the time.

No, just a freeter.

I do hate going outside, but I can manage.

for about two months.

Partial hikki.

>>48310969
You can't be partial hikki.

Yes, I hate society and I enjoy leeching off of the government

Did any of you read that translated blog by the hikki guy?

When he wrote that he could barely talk anymore because his vocalchord was so unexercised I felt really bad for him.. Especially when he said it didn't matter if he couldn't talk anymore since he has no one to speak with IRL anyway.

People who proudly call themselves hikki don't know shit about real hikkis and have only watched Welcome to NHK.

Simple answer: Yes, I am indeed.

I often lament the fact that I wasn't born a couple hundred years ago, because I once heard somewhere that back then really eccentric rich people used to pay people to be hermits and live on their land for some bizarre reason. Yes, apparently rich people liked to keep hermits as pets back then. Goddamn that would have been the perfect job for me. Just live in a little hut on the outskirts of some rich guy's property reading books all day while getting paid to be alone all the time.
On the other hand, I'm also relatively happy that I was born into this day and age, as computers and internet make it unbelievably easy to sustain a life completely cut off from contact with the outside world. I can buy whatever I need over the internet so I never need to step outside, and thanks to disability living allowance I make enough money to live off without having to work.

And yet, on the metaphorical third hand which I don't actually have, I regret not being born a few hundred years later as I'll likely never be able to live in a virtual world of my choosing on a far-off and exotic planet somewhere and live in this false world of my own creation with mai waifu until my body and brain stopped functioning.

In other words - I'm fine being born in this day and age, but I wouldn't mind having been born 200 years earlier or later than this time. I guess I'd be fine just being born in any time period so long as I don't have to leave my home.

>>48311064

You'd be surprised how many people here are closer to the guy you mentioned than you think

For four years, I've only left the house on Christmas in order to avoid people.

Recently I started having therapy though, so I leave the house once per week.

Nothing wrong with being a hikka. Not everyone loves social interaction, some people find loneliness to be something enjoyable. That doesn't make them wrong, just different.

I'm a NEET.

Does anyone else have parents who want you to get a job but when you go on interviews, you do badly on purpose just so you can use the excuse "I'm trying to get a job" to get your parents to continue to support you?

No. But I want to work my way into being an independent hikikomori. All the extra money I save, all the time I keep away from those I care about, that is dedicated to living a "forever alone" lifestyle. If I survive to the age where I can truly be forever alone, I can rejoice for I have obtained the lifestyle I wish for.

>>48311087
He speaks the truth. I never been to school. I'm almost 19.

The funny thing is that hikikomoris on average talk to more people a day than social people. We just do it online through forums and instant messengers

Anti-social.

No, and I wouldn't want to become one since no social interaction for prolonged amounts of time makes me lose my mind. Not to say that I have any friends right now to hang out with, but at least I go out a bit, even if it's just for things that I must.

>>48311280

I'm the same as this guy.

Its easy to tell the autistic people in this topic. If you weren't autistic, you wouldn't be able to stand a lack of social interaction. Its something a normal person needs as part of their life

LOLZ YEAH IM A HIKKI JUST LIEK EVERY 1 N GREAT(AND BEAUTIFUL) NIPPON XD!!!

No, but I'm certainly wired with a tendency to be one.
And lately I've fallen dangerously close to setting myself on track to inevitably becoming one.
Gotta get my shit together, oh god.

>>48311280
If you go crazy enough, you could obtain your waifu. Or are you a 3DP loving normalfag?

Yes I am. The only person with whom I have contact is my sister at this point, and that is because she is letting me live with her.

I have plenty of anime girls on my walls and on my pillows so I never feel lonely

nope i have i job.

>>48311427

You can still have a job and be a hikki. its called working form home

>>48311322
I'M NORMAL AND IF ANYONE ISN'T LIKE ME THEY'RE AUTISTIC XXXXXXDDDDD

>>48311437
yeah i wish i had a job at home. But i don't

>>48311453

Autism is a social disorder. It would make sense that autistic people are the ones who don't like social interactions.

>>48311279
ya.
pretty much a hikki anyway

i can blame that fuck up form teacher when i was in grade 2.
whatever i do, whether it was right or wrong, get scolded.
and made me not wanna go to school.

how bout post backstory on how you became a hikki?

>>48311437
What sort of jobs are those and how do you get them?

I have a job and every so often I visit my parents to keep up their illusion that I'm doing fine, but other than that I spend all my time at home in front of my computer. Don't know if that makes me a genuine hikki or not.

>>48311064
link?

I'm not a NEET, but I am a hikikomori.
Feels pretty fucking terrible.

>>48311491

a hikki only leaves the house for like essential stuff, like food or an anime figure not sold online

Jealous?

>>48311521

I know thats probably not your real room, but I give a thumbs up to that Shana poster

>>48311521
>IMG_0033
>Date: April 29, 2010 9:22:20AM (timezone not specified)
(11 months, 17 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes, 24 seconds ago, assuming image timezone of US Pacific)

Is this really your picture?

>>48311491
If you leave the house for work you obviously aren't a hikki.

>>48311521
Yes.

>>48311521
Holy fucking shit man, you give everything in your EXIF data.

>>48311536
>>48311540
>>48311557
Yep, you're healous

>>48311515
It is essential stuff for me. If I don't go to work, I'll lose my home and starve. If I don't visit my parents, they'll call the police. I don't leave the house otherwise. If I have to shop, I do it on the way home from work. But I guess it's a good thing that I'm not a real hikki yet after all.

simple answer: yes.

I wish I could be a hikki, but my parents actualy care about me so they';re not about to let me waste away in my room and mooch off them for the rest of my life

They told me to get a job/go to college, or they would kick me out

>>48311578

A true hikki doesn't worry about stuff like "money", since they are being supported by their parents or government disability checks

This is just another plot by the NHK! You can't fool me!

I wouldn't call myself a hikikomori, but I can probably coun't on one hand how manny time's I've gone outside the house the last month, but I got friends, and its not like i GOTTA stay inside. But i would call myself a fullblood NEET. "gonna start doing something......... soon"

>>48311491
>>48311515
You guys are seriously underestimating how severe the hikikomori condition is.
They cannot go out in the same way that an enochlophobe can't walk into a crowd. They'll go fucking MAD.

>>48311567
http://www.digitalconfidence.com/downloads.html

>>48311578
They're not TRULY essential.
If you were a hikki, you would starve and the police would discover your rotting corpse.

I have few friends. I work at a bar down the road a few days a week. I try and do as many stocking tasks as possible so i dont have to serve drinks and make small talk. Some days i have to take anti-anxiety medications just to go in, that is, on top of my anti-depressants which I take every day.

Im about to start a computer course at College and I have a girlfriend.

I never go to parties and I dont drink.

so.....no

>>48311619

How are they supposed to be fed if they can't buy groceries? I haven't had a job in years and I'm 28 and live alone, and I only go out for groceries. Am I not a hikki just because I don't starve to death?

>>48311619

Bullshit hardly anyone is that bad

Most people on /a/ are just too lazy, or think they have some kind of real social anxiety.

I fucking hate talking to people, it scares the shit out of me, but I deal with it

>>48311619
>he thinks it's a real condition

>>48311635

If you need to take anti-anxiety medicines just to do your job, maybe you shouldn't be working in a position that requires high social skills...

who the fuck would be proud to be a hikki?

wait this guy on youtube does....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2Ae8OmGTo

>>48311700

who the fuck would be proud to be a social butterfly?

To me, that seems very unappealing. Different strokes for different folks

>>48311700

what the fuck am I watching

>>48311642
>Most people on /a/ are just too lazy, or think they have some kind of real social anxiety.
>I fucking hate talking to people, it scares the shit out of me, but I deal with it
They're not hikikomori. You're not hikikomori.
I'm not talking about worthless fucks on /a/, I'm talking about thousands of broken kids in Japan that haven't seen daylight in months, even years.

>>48311656
You're a fucking moron.

what niggers think of hikkis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROaWYHF2JrE&feature=watch_response

Yes I am, for a couple of years now.

I quit my job because co-workers and my manager started mobbing me, lived off my savings for two years not caring about my future, lost my appartment because I could not afford it anymore. Moved back into my parents house, became a WoW and anime addict. Only leave the house every other day to buy tobacco and alcohol. I am not proud of this lifestyle, but too depressed to change it.

>>48311783

See the part in my post where I say I'm a hikki?

neither do I

Fuck, my life would be so much happier if I could just stay in my room 24/7. My mother can barely support herself, let alone me. Maybe I can claim disability...

>>48311669
Yes, I agree! Its just short term. Obviously once I have qualifications ill go for a job involving computer...

>>48311604
> samefag
Gotta add: It's not like I TRY to keep my friends though, I am NEVER the one who makes the phone calls, and i rather avoid picking up the phone 90% of the time. Don't think I've called any one for about 6 months, strangely enough theres always one or two friends per week who calls, and sometimes i pick it up just to make sure they won't come to my home. TL;DR: I don't like people and i can do fine without socialising for months.

Just a NEET. I'm still intimidated by large groups of people and various insecurities but I don't have a psychological condition or anything of the sort.

>>48311794
Fucking niggers, they don't understand shit.

>>48311809
I don't see it anywhere either.
I'm glad that you seem to agree with me, then, that you aren't one.
Lovely to see that we're all on the same page, isn't it?

I'm a NEET but not for long.

No I'm not, I'm at uni. Every now and then i don't leave my room as I just don't feel like talking to anyone that day.
Other than that, being on /a/ and liking manga/anime pretty much a normal fag

>>48311851

>>48311794
>>48311700

Jesus fucking christ. This is why I hide my power level

NEET? yes

Hikki? Last time I went outside my house was about 4 months ago, does that count?

>>48311882

The Japanese definition is 6 months, so not quite

I was sort of.

But there was a concert in London that I just had to go to, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I could not miss out.

I bought two tickets so a family friend could come with me but they pulled out and I had to sell it and just travel alone (it was terrifying). I sold the ticket to some dude on Last.fm and hey it turns out he was the love of my life.

Now I leave the house regularly so I can visit him.

>>48311794
>Welcome to the NHK has to be da funniest anime i ever seen my nigga

NEET

The last time I went outside was last September.
I don't have anything else to say.

>>48311907

>implying a girl is on /a/

>>48310704
Getting a Law Degree
But for majority of week I'm at home
Also might be getting a job soon so I can fund my book buying habit.

>>48311958

Maybe I am gay?

>>48311619
I don't think there is a single hikkikomori condition. Some hide inside their rooms because they can't be outside, some hide in their rooms because they can't be around people.

Personally, I've been diagnosed with an avoidant personality disorder which pretty much is a general social phobia (i.e. social anxiety in pretty much any social situation).

I can be around people, it's just extremely stressful for me, so if I don't have a very good reason to do that I'll avoid it wherever I can. Just sitting in a lecture hall with students gives me the same experience others feel in an exam. Up to a certain point it's possible, but on a daily basis this gets really tiresome, so due to that, I started avoiding classes whenever possible, I started failing, thus I had no reason to leave the house, thus I avoided going out at all, thus I became a hikkikomori.

I'm certain there are way more people like me in western countries than people commonly believe, we just don't have a pretty name for them or make cartoons about them.

>>48311958
>implying its a girl and not a gay couple

>>48311971

are you?

>>48311979

doesn't really matter tbh

>>48311977

Well, posting a pic of a guy and girl doesn't help that case...

>>48311907

Fucking fag took the first dick he saw when he left the house.

>>48311794
>who doesn't barely go outside

during my teenage years (15-19) i suffered from extreme social anxiety and agoraphobia. i think the longest stretch i had of not leaving the house was about 2-3 years.

compared to my life now, it was actually not that bad.
now i have to work a shitty job and interact with people, it's horrible.

Welfare master race living on my own. No friends or social life outside direct family.
Not a hikikomori since I actually go outside for after midnight walks, grocery or laundry. Also see the family once about every week or 2.

>>48311994
GTFO

Everyone on /a/ is a little girl/fagot

>>48311198

No I just spent a year applying to jobs and doing more than a dozen interviews because every interview I'd turn into a gibbering nervous wreck, and no one would employ me no matter how good my CV was.

I only left the house that year to go interviews, now I have a job as a software developer and I only leave the house to work, sadly that is most of the day 5 days a week.

I'd love to work from home, that way could be a Hikki but not a NEET.

>>48311972
I don't really mean to disrespect the validity of your life experiences or anything, but dismissing all claims of purported hikikomori on the basis of your own experience with becoming a shut-in seems kind of short-sighted.

>>48311998

Actually I have had boyfriends before but for obvious reasons it never worked out. tbh with my previous record most people would call me a slut :(

the first time I heard about hikkikomori was a few years back on TV, there was a feature about it on ABC (australia), it some of shows people who hasn't been outside their rooms for months even years.

My question is there a single form of a hikki or are there stages? i.e level 1 would be still meeting people at home but never leave the house for 6 months, while level 5 would be stuck in the room as people drop food in front of your room with the computer and TV being your only connection to the outside world

>>48312042
>with my previous record most people would call me a slut :(
Do you mean "most people on /a/" or "most people in general?

>>48312026

I'm someone who stutters, and this is my reason for not being able to get a job. Its never a good first impression when you start stuttering during an interview, and makes me look stupid.

>>48312018
>Not a hikikomori since I actually go outside for after midnight walk
Plenty of hikkikomori do that, simply because they're less likely to meet people that way - especially people who they know.

>>48312042

>slut

Now you're just trying to make things confusing

>>48312042
>:(
Using emoticons is a far worse offence.

>>48312046
You're venturing into some subjectively gray area there, bro.

>>48312049

most people on /a/ I guess.
Since people IRL think that I am actually kind of prude/was never sexually active.

Most girls I knew (family members included) always said they've had at least 40 sexual partners over their life time. I've had about 5 (personally I think that's a lot tbh).


>>48312084
I'm sorry ;3;

>>48312041
I don't know how you got that from my post. I didn't mean to say that there were no hikkikomori - on the contrary - I said that there most likely are lots of them.

What I questioned was that there was a single "hikkikomori" condition. I'd rather say that being a hikkikomori is a symptom of a variety of conditions rather than the condition itself.

>Hikikomori/NEET thread
>normalfags and "girls" come in and starting fagging it up
Oh well, it was a good thread while it lasted (all 20 minutes)

>>48312118

40 sexual partners? that is just so wrong

>>48312042
If you interact enough with people to the degree that outsiders would call you a "slut" then I highly doubt that you are "sort of a hiki" you are "sort of a attention whore" and a needy bitch who's afraid to be alone, thats basicaly the oposite

There's no such a thing in my country, and if there is, they must be so rare it's completely unheard of.

I think when you've got problems like those, it means you've got a repressive culture, and thus people feel alienated and/or not accepted.

I'm not surprised about this being a well-known problem in Japan, given their culture. I also wouldn't be surprised about it in some European countries and maybe in America as well.

there's a lot of hikkikomori in the world, you just never met them yet

>>48312026
i know that feel. the first time i spoke in front of students I felt flushed and dizzy. that only exacerbated the situation because i kept wondering if the students would think poorly of me. public speaking and speaking with authorities is no joke

>>48312166

What country? Iraq or something?

Just a NEET. I do rarely go out but its mostly because I live in the middle of fuck all nowhere and commuting is troublesome and expensive.

lmao first-world 'problems'.

I enjoy being alone a lot. But I make a point of trying to socialize at least once a week. I'm only keeping up with bleach and naruto right now so I guess I'm not very into anime though

>>48312128
Oh. My bad.
I misinterpreted your first sentence as "I don't think there is a single [legitimate case of the] hikkikomori ["]condition["] for two reasons: I've come to underestimate the grammar of my fellow /a/-browsers and it's been 30 hours since I've had any sleep. Such a misinterpretation throws the rest of your post into a... much different light, you see.
Do forgive me, sir.

I hope the conservatives don't get into power in my country. They have a policy of forcing unemployed youths to work unskilled jobs if they are on welfare.

>>48312152

I always get grossed out by it, but it seems so normal for people to have a huge amount of sexual partners. Then again this is the UK and everyone is a slut - man or woman.


>>48312155
Well I am more sociable now due to medication and general happiness, but I very rarely left the house for pretty much my entire late childhood and teens. I hated the outside but I always wanted to get better so I used to force myself to go out once I was around 16/17. I'd only be able to cope being outside for a day maximum and then I'd spend months locked in my room trying to recover from the trauma.

People are terrifying.

>>48312152
Not really, when you think about it.
When I actually care to pay attention to how often the "normal" people around me break up and hook up, it does indeed add up to something like that after a number of years in overactive social life.

Kind of strange to realize, isn't it.

Being a NEET can lead to being a hikki simply because you'd have no money to do things that you'd rather do.

>>48312166
They're well known because everyone in Japan is so fucking close, they even know the color of your underwear.
Why wouldn't they notice a hikikomori.

>>48312166
So there is no such things as hiki's in Your country because you can't see them or hear (about) them? Fail, hiki's CAN'T be seen. There's more of them than you know, even in your country

>>48312155
Dude... tone back the bite a little. People like her do exist.
They're just as fucked up as we are, as hard as it is to imagine.

>>48312118
I have only had a half of a sexual experience.

i say half because i never realized how gross a real vagina was until i was near one. My dick lost an erection and i puked because of the gross slimy feel and gross smell.

You are a whore Gtfo Normal fag

>>48312300

Hikkis don't have friends or people they interact with to think of them as a slut, though

>>48312300
She's still not a hikki.

>>48312318
>no friends
You guys are my friends though, right?

I leave to attend classes during the week, so I guess technically no. I do have social phobia though.

>>48312352
no you are a whore GTFO

At first I thought shutting myself in would be cool, but then I realized I had some dignity left

>>48312318

No one I know IRL thinks I am a slut, it's usually people online. I also don't really have friends, it's mostly family friends that I know, my big sister is a very very very social person and pretty much everyone knows her (and then knows me through her)

>>48312332
I didn't say I was, I said I sort-of was. I've never had situations as bad as most people, I just used to go months - sometimes years - without leaving the house. I guess if anything I can just relate to people who can get really bad.

>>48312318
You haven't read the rest of her posts. She meant US.

>>48312332
The claim was "sort of." She certainly gets out less than me, from the sound of it.

>>48312352
For fuck's sake, woman, are you FUCKING ASKING FOR IT NOW?

I'm not a hikkimori, but seeing how I have assburgers, does that mean I have an excuse and potential to be one?

>>48312300

It's cool. I can understand why he would be angry at me, most people are.

>>48312392
I didn't post that.

I rarely leave the house because I have terrible panic disorder and a poor immune system I only go out occasionally with my mother to help her walk around and get stuff but seeing as we will probably be moving to a place where we have to mail order groceries I might end up full time but currently I think I only apply as a shut in seeing as I do work from home and thus do not qualify as a NEET.

>>48312399

You could easily apply for disability checks (at least if you're american) and live the hikki lifestyle

>>48312399
>excuse
No.
>potential
Maybe.

>>48312417
I know, actually. It was pretty obvious.
I was making a joke. I also wouldn't call someone "woman" if I was serious.

It's... Fuck, it's late.

>>48312179
No, not Iraq, just a country in which personal space isn't ridiculously distant, and in which there's barely any restriction on how to who affections.

>>48312270
>>48312290
This is a small country, and people tend to know everything about others. Like seriously, to the point it's not even funny. If there were people like hikkis, you can be fairly sure people would know about them. It probably also helps that the vast majority in this country is poor, so they don't have time to be hikkis, and the government doesn't give them free money to keep the lazy.

It probably also helps that families are very, very close.

>>48312386
Why is it that the older siblings are always the ones that are more social than the younger ones? I've found this to be the case quite a few times, particularly with myself and a friend of mine. The older siblings are the more outgoing ones, whereas the younger siblings are closed off.

>>48312450

How would you know people are hikkis if you don't even know those people exist since they never come out of their house?

>>48312418
I am a fully-functional member of society by most standards.
Why... why am I JEALOUS of you?

>>48312459

I imagine younger siblings become closed off due to the older sibling being more dominant. I've never had a reason to talk because my sister always did it for me.

To be honest I only started to become more social when she moved out of the country for a few years.

>>48312450
I fucking knew it, the Vatican

>>48312459
It's not always the case. It is just as often the other way around.
You are suffering from a perspective bias.

>>48312450

Why can't you just say what country it is? Its not like we'd be able to figure out one person out of millions living in a country just based on knowing which country it is

If it wasn't for university I'd definitely become one. That's the only thing I go out for.

>>48312540
/a/ never gives sources

>>48312579

Why even go to university if you'd want to become one? A university means you'd want to get a job, something thats anti-hikki

>>48312483
Gossiping, it happens a lot. From good things, to really bad things. People aren't particularly secretive, since people aren't particularly shameful.

>>48312540
Ecuador

>>48310833
I have the aspergers too (If you are not a liar), but since my parents always forced me to face social situations I don't fear them, I just don't give a fuck about them and stay at my home in my free time when I'm not in college studying the thing that interests me (yes I go to college in my free time).

>>48312488
Because I have an awesome cow plush?

>>48312611

And how would there even be gossip about someone who lives alone and doesnt interact with people to start the gossip?

>>48312459
Actually its kinda the opposite for me and my family, my little sister is a comon slut who is home for about 1 hour every day before she sleeps, party's twice a week and sluts it up every weeked. My big sister is "medium" social and usualy spends the weekend at home reading books, don't got alot of friends (still goes out to drink from time to time). Then there is me, barely leaves my room etc(same old storry)

>>48312166
>I also wouldn't be surprised about it in some European countries and maybe in America as well.
I'd say it's mostly an urban phenomenon, since as a hikki you'll want to be anonymous. It's important that as few people as possible know about your condition so they won't bother you. Also, a certain level of development is necessary, since the hikki needs to be supported - either because of a family rich enough to do that - or because of government welfare (in most cases, the first is probably more attractive since it doesn't require any paperwork, showing up somewhere in person, etc.); which also gives people the level of self-sufficiency that they can allow themselves not to interact with their neighbours, not to rely on anyone else, etc.

When societies are generally more reclusive, then some family members can take it to that hikki level. In more open societies - I don't think this is as easily possible (not impossible though).

>>48312631

My parents eventually stopped forcing me into those situations when I attempted suicide when I was 14 over social stress, so it worked out in the end

>>48312178

You're a teacher / lecturer?
I could never do that, I freak out talking to groups of less than 5 people and it only gets worse as there's more.

There was a departmental meeting at my company the other day and the director of IT was going waffling on about stuff while about 30 or so of us sat round one of them big meeting tables. He starts talking about some of our big projects that we've completed recently and I realise he's going to mention something I've worked on.
He asks me to give some input and like, 30 heads turn and stare at me and I feel about 10cm tall.
I tried to give some vague answer but it just came out in one of them nervous squeaks that I'm sure no one understood half of what I said.
Then I smiled awkwardly and the meeting continued as if nothing had happpened...

I'm not really a hikki, but I stay in my room and do nerdy shit when no one else wants to hang out or I have no obligations for the rest of the day. I have plenty of friends and go out and socialize with them, but I can't bring myself to go out and meet people by myself because I constantly feel like I'm being judged, especially around attractive girls. I never really am, and it usually ends up with people I think I annoyed or looked stupid in front of telling me I was cool and asking me why i never hung out with them again... But I always feel that way regardless. I'm not shy when I'm around friends though, for some reason. But when no one else who i know really well is around for me to go out for the night with, I just stay in my room.

>>48312666

I'm so sorry to hear that.

not technically

although im on a break now and cant be fucked going out

but give me a few years and ill leave uni on my way to the top

>>48312634
That's probably part of it, admittedly.
Also, I too am about ready to go outside and kill every last bird within a five hundred yard radius.

I fucking wish I could be a Hikki. I'm at uni basically from 9 to 5 daily, work a few evenings a week, have a fuckton of work/studying to do when I'm actually at home. It's bearable because I actually find my studies genuinely interesting, but that doesn't make it any less tiring.

The grass is always greener on the other side, I guess. I'm sure I'd find things to hate about being a shut-in if I actually did become one.

>>48312642
Because people don't live alone. It's not a cultural thing. You live with your parents until you get married, and even then, some people still live with their parents (and their spouses) until they're able to afford a place.

Most people start working since they're 18 (i.e. if they're middle class, and these jobs are full time). Poor people start working even sooner, from childhood even.

The unemployment rate for poor people is rather high, and the only thing they receive from the government is some cash (around US$35), which accounts for nothing, since the basic basket is around US$400. So, they've got to find some activities like selling candies in the streets, selling pirated films and the ilk. Crime is fucking high.

In the cases of poor people, it is not weird for two families to live in the same house, and this house is far too small. Your room is probably the same size as their house, just to give an example.

I'm in education right now and I don't plan on becoming a neet even if I have to emigrate.
Watching animu and reading mangoes and light novels is one thing. Shutting yourself indoors and wasting away your life is in a whole different category afaik.

>>48312795

Outside of lack of socializing, there really isn't many drawbacks. You have no work, no responsibilities, and can just spend your entire life with your hobbies. Hell, with pirating and the like, you can easily have everything you want too with just disability checks to cover the cost of living

So what's the best way to earn money without leaving the house?

>>48312843

Welfare or being supported for your parents

>>48312666
nah, I apreciate my life too much, if I don't live I won't be able to watch anime/study and since I stopped giving a damn about the whining of my parents I'm okay with my current situation.

>>48312814

>Because people don't live alone. It's not a cultural thing.

It is infact a cultural thing. Here in America, many people in the 18-30 year old demographic live alone in apartments.

>>48312826 and can just spend your entire life

You mean until your parents stop working.
Can't really support a three people family with a pension.
And when they die you're fucked. Very fucked.

>>48312879

Welfare won't stop even if your parents stop working

>>48312817
If you think NEET's are NEET's because of anime and manga then you are pretty ignorant.