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I have Social anxiety and admit it!
I have a fear of posting anonymously.
oh noes
Anyone else frantically updating updating bbs-like boards like thease to see if any new replys have rolled in, out of boredom?
>>7
All day at work, at home, in classes, in my sleep...
Hello.
Goodbye.
And with >>10s leave of absence, this thread has peacefully ended.
No.
I say we call >>10 back and start over.
Uhh... so
Hikikomori:s likely have some mental illness, based on what I read about the issue. The onset time matches (late adolescence/early adulthood) and several mental illnesses result in "severe social withdrawal". Also the percentage of populatuion matches...
It's not ausitm though (that has a much earlier onset).
So whatever... Someone tell them. Maybe a few of them would prefer to get help and become "normal citizens" again. It's possible.
Hikikomori probably have acute Agoraphobia (put "define Agoraphobia" in google).
Yep, it's not necessarily autism. More like social anxiety.
>>15 agoraphobia is possible but most more serious mental illnesses have similar symptoms too
>>16 in many cases it could be Avoidant Personality Disorder, a little bit stronger and more serious than your average social anxiety
>>4
Join the club.
Though I'm less keen on admitting it to most people. And i'm not a hardcore hikky, only almost.
More weirdly enough, i've hooked up with another near-hikky. -_-;;
he's worse off than me though. trying to help him get better. it's hard. =(
>>19
Stay away from those losers, for Job's sake!
I have Socialist anxiety and admit it!
>>19
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>>14
it is probably something like schizo or bipolar or somehting of that nature
>>22 knows how to make something true: just say it enough times.
I know a hikikomori, I think.
He wasn't always that way, so I was able to see his descent. At first, he was a regular, lazy student. He would often sleep during class and not take things very seriously. He was a gamer and attended LANs from time to time. In any case, he was a smart kid, even though he was lazy, and went to university.
However, he had started playing an MMORPG. Due to the game, and his already high level of laziness, he started attending less and less of his university, until eventually he flunked out. He went back to his parent's house and played the MMORPG all day and night. They wanted him to get a job, but he did not.
He is still a hikikomori, and my friend. I don't think he gets out much (if even at all). This is perhaps one of the closest things to hikikomori that might exist in the western nations. I assume he still moves out of his room to get food and such, as unlike Japanese parents, his will not totally subordinate themselves to him and bring food to his room.
He's a good guy and we still talk on instant messengers. I have quit said MMORPG, so my future is looking bright, but it is not hard to understand how someone could become hikikomori because of them. Since he's on the MMORPG, it's not like he is devoid of contact, as those games are full of social contact. But he is a hikikomori in the sense that he meets no people in reality.
Maybe his problem is (and my problem was) a case of addiction. I have escaped the addiction by realizing the pointlessness of MMORPG, and moved onto playing WoW. It's not as involving, so I can play casually and not worry about being 1337. I made a resolution to myself to only play casually, and that I would never visit a gaming site. This is because many gaming sites have forums that optimize the best way in order to become 1337. This ends up with the result of having to buy the same item everyone else is buying, usually that item costs a shitload. So, I can be a gimp in ignorance and not be addicted (hopefully, this is just a plan).
So, those were my accounts on the subject of hikikomori and MMO games. Can they still be classified as hikikomori in the classical sense, or are they not hikikomori because they talk to the outside world via internet?
The fact that someone can become addicted to an MMORPG is frightening. I suppose we can become addicted to anything, even 4-ch. Like >>7 I frequently reload anonymous BBS and such. Maybe it's from not having too many other things to do, I'm not sure. I do have a lot of unfinished 1-player games to play, so maybe it's an issue of wanting social contact.
Bye-nara~
>>25 does not know what a hikikomori is...
your friend is just an MMORPG addict who needs to get help
That was sort of the point I was trying to make when I made this thread. ;)
>>26
So I guess the answer is hikikomori can't play MMORPG?
>>27
I was actualy just being sarcastic and picking on the type of people that freak out at the mere mention that it might exist outside of Japan
I'm with >>21. I, too, get anxious whenever I am around socialists, or in a socialist situation.
lol socialist
Let's not get into an argument about what a "true" hikkikomori really is. It's a constant, unending battle even on 2ch's hiki board.
Some think that you're not one unless you urinate into bottles and never leave your room at all. Some have a lighter definition and say it's someone simply unable to leave the house. There are varying degrees, so let's leave it at that.
I worry sometimes that I'm showing signs of autism or that I'm going to have Alzheimer's when I get old, but I'm not planning on living past 30 anyway, so it's okay.
"cannot leave the room/house"?
what do you mean by that?
[s]he doesn't want to leave it (1), or she wants to but cannot for some reason (2), or (3) if they grab him/her [s]he gets mad and tries all [s]he can to avoid being taken outside?
>>34 I believe it's referring to being socially incapable of leaving the house due to shyness or anxiety or whatever it may be -- a mental conflict.
So does anyone here really have Asperger's syndrome? None of this self-diagnosed bullshit.
>>38
They're too shy to go out and get professionally diagnosed. (lol)
>>38
I have Asperger's
for me, to live in society is to constantly being an actor....
[sorry for my stupid english]
I am always on scene
Haha, I know I have something. At least APD.
Genuine aspie here. Properly diagnosed, member of a regular AS support group, and frequent vistor to DQN, altough i seldom post. I'd offer to answer quetions, but anonimity prevents this.
>>46
Why not just use Tor if you're worried about IP address? Or alternatively / auxiliarly, mask the names
I found a finals paper regarding Hikikomoris. Damned interesting reading, figured you people might want to have a look too:
http://towakudai.blogs.com/Hikikomori.Research.Survey.pdf
I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, but I don't believe it. Having been diagnosed with like 52 different things in my childhood, I have little patience left for so-called "mental health professionals", who I suspect find problems where none exist so they can make money selling the solution.
>>48
what about girls? Since I am handsome girls are going mad when
then met me. they have no idea what I AM. you know girls have
stereotypes about men's behavior and about men in general
but when it comes to me none of their ideas works. lol
nothing of the kind.
I think that people with Aspergers are soon should take over the earth. because we ARE superior. too bad I have not found a girl with asperger yet...
Just a little advice to a people with Asperger.
you should start drawing or any kind of occupation that involves
creativity. it can help you to understand yourself. it helped me a lot.
second, you should get yourself free from the bounds of family.
for us such primitive things like (Family,friendship etc) are useless. because we are have the ability to see things in their
real form.
also if you a handsome person you can pursuit an actor career. lol
actors are happened to be a empty people who live in parallel universe lol, a life in the fiction. some otakus are the same.
but they lack very important things, so they can not be actors.
half super bitch and half mega cunt.
>>53
Everyone is an actor. Most people just play one part.
>>51
Girls find me cute at first. As they get to know me, they start to find me annoying. The longest relationships I've had have ended after two years or so.
>>52 I do just that. I'm a freelance artist, so I can stay home and work when I feel like it.
It gets easier to cope with once you realize that fucking isn't such a big deal after all.
But if all I was interested in was fucking, I wouldn't care if girls got tired of me after a while, now would I?
Actually, you will. After all the effort put into landing a compatible fuck buddy, you end up feeling way too attached to them to just let it go later on.
>>25
LOL that reminded me something -_-"
Oh I was already a computer geek when I got into mmorpgs but man THAT made things a bit worse LOL.... (then I discovered anime too and became unrecoverable..)
>>33
..I pissed through the window a couple times to avoid leaving the room so I qualify as a true hiki :))
so guys, I just read the entire wikipedia entry on Asperger's syndrome.
Pretty sure I don't have it because my motor skills as fine, lol.
That should have been "are fine"
Irony.
>..I pissed through the window a couple times to avoid leaving the room so I qualify as a true hiki :))
lmao
I have a friend that's destined to be a hiki. Just got out of high school a few months ago, has zero plans for a job or college and will avoid them as much as he possibly can.
He's not exactly shy, but he absolutely hates having to go outside or do anything.
i used to be like that also, after i met few outgoing friends, it change me compleatly. now stay in my room for too long can made my mood down.
>>65
1) always go out with friends
2) having some friends that are different than you
3) Open your mind
I see your true colours, shining through.
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you.
So don't be afraid, to let them show,
Your true colours, true colours,
Beautiful, like a rainbow.
;_; ~ A Song for the Hikkikomoris ~ Absent but not forgotten ~
Two minutes silence please.
(,-.-)
>>69
lol
>..I pissed through the window a couple times to avoid leaving the room so I qualify as a true hiki :))
I've done it on the carpet when I was five or so. Only time recently was when I was in the garage and did it in teh drain pipe for the water coming out of the washer.
I'm a hikikomori, and have been for almost 25 years now. It definitely is a syndrome which stands onto itself, it is a separate thing which you might catch under social anxiety and such, but it really is and should be a separate diagnosis.
In the first years your loneliness and isolation are unbearable. Then, years on, the unacceptable gradually becomes the norm. Then, slowy, after many years, you start to outgrow it and become a more voluntary hermit.
For me, childhood abuse on many levels and years of being bullied without mercy have brought it on for the most part. Hikikomori isn't autism, not even close. Autists (bless them) are born different, Hikikomori however are made (or rather: broken) by outside influences.
Autists are different by their nature and thus will forever be autistic, but can learn to cope. Hikikomori have the blessing that they can heal, but have the curse that they were broken, shattered to pieces from the whole person they once were.
If there are any fellow Hikikomori out here: bless you. Be true to your nature, and try to have faith that one day life will feel good again. Do not let yourself be forced too much by the outside world, but also do not get too comfortable in the cocoon you live in.
Be yourself, and be true to yourself. Like most hikikomori you will probably in several months or years overcome this, and if you do not succeed, you will eventually overcome the despair and pain itself.
Know that somewhere in that frightening, threatening outside world, there on a safe distance is a fellow hikikomori who sheds a tear for your anonymous sorrow, and wishes you well with all his heart.
Know that despite your isolation - you are not alone.
Add schizoid personality disorder to the list of reasons people wont go out
I've been told I had "signs of schizoid" by a social worker. I took it as an insult and stopped seeing her. I don't think I am. I'm extremely introverted which I know and I've resigned myself to some facts about the way that my social life will always be, but I still don't think that the symptoms accurately describe me. I don't "not want" relationships, I've come to terms with the fact that I suck at initiating them, and I'll take them as they come and go.
Also, I love to leave the house so long as I don't have to deal with people! I think another factor is that I'm an absolute perfectionist and I consider almost everyone I meet to be a moron. Granted, a good portion of them are, but I tend to judge people in that regard too quickly, and hold others to the same standards to which I hold myself. Paradoxically I feel no shame when I fail to meet my own standards. Just anger with myself followed by forced practice of whatever skill I have failed to execute to my standard.
I'm hikikomori, but my mother would kick me out if I didn't go to school. I end up going to a quiet place in city library to stay until I can go home, school just expects too much of me and...
At one point I really really wanted to finish school, but I tried my hardest and it wasn't good enough. Society looks down on my type, so even if I try my hardest, the school would not care, and they don't.
I spend nearly every minute awake somewhere isolated with a PC or books. Even so, this lifestyle is unbearable, but there's nothing I can do to fix my life.
I just recently found out about hikis. I guess I am one somewhat. I want to be a social person, and have good friends, but past experiences which I am unable to get over (hah, weak faget :P) hinder me from doing so.
I only leave to go to college. I'd be kicked out and unable to support myself if I just stayed in my room ALL the time.
I've been diagnosed with Aspergers, but reckon I have SPD (schizoid) because I'm so lethargic and uninterested in social contest.
And no, I'm not some Myers-Brigg fanboy but every point of the diagnostic criteria fits me like a glove (aside from the asexuality thing).
Oh yeah, and I'm 16, still live with my parents etc. so I don't have to piss out the window or shit in a bag yet. The "live in your room" thing I couldn't do; I need to walk/jog around the house a lot. And I have a perfectly good relationship with my family.
Was I the only who noticied >>25 said, I have escaped the addiction by realizing the pointlessness of MMORPG, and moved onto playing WoW.
...
I'm hikikomori.
I hate myself.
>>80 on the right track I see.
The doctor who gave me the diagnosis Asperger must have lied.
On the paper I got it sounded like having a asocial personality alone would make me an Aspergers person.
sidenote: I've been diagnosed with ADHD in the past but i think this is wholly different case.
>>74
Holden?
I have something like Hikikomori, I spend alot of time on the computer, and I don't want to leave, but when I do, I enjoy being with others, but I really don't say much, I just listen to the conversation, etc. I'm socially awkward and such.
I hate the outside world.
I've been in hikikomori for more then 4 years, and I'm to the point where I don't want to go be with the world.
As long as I'm fed and I have an Internet connection I'm happy.
Lucky for you.
But my parents i think will kick me out one day.
Beneath them i don't know a single person.
So starving and/or freezing to death is most the probably thing to happen for me :(
Let's all get our money together and buy an island. All of us Hikikomori can live there in peace.
It's better than living in the streets after our parents finally kick us out.
not aspergers or autistic, sorry. hikikomori, definitely. i agree about the hikki island lol.
>>73 made me cry
I have to repeat another year of school because I broke down and couldn't take it, but I think it's getting worse... Already I can't sleep at night because I have negative suicidal thoughts and I feel awkward around people and feel averse to going out of the house. I wasn't even this bad a year ago - I had normal dreams of going to uni with cool people and getting a job and all, but now I don't even think I can get into a technical school. It's like Satou from NHK ni Youkoso said, "I'd kill myself but I'm too lazy to - I just don't want to do anything".
So chalk that up as a hikki-in-training?
Definitely not aspergers or autistic though - I know someone who is and it's a different kettle of fish
My uncle has been hikkomori for 30 years. He's over 50.
The good news is that he's taking care of my aging grandfather. The bad news is that my grandfather really doesn't have anyone else to talk to besides him, and he's kind of a downer.
I've been a hikikomori for 6 years now.
Junior high and highschool drove me insane.I tried to kill myself, that didn't work. So one day I just locked my self in my room.My parents have tried everything to get me to come out, but they don't understand. They knew I was tortured in school,but told me to deal with it.I have only came out during the day twice since then.I only leave my house[my parents kicked me out and got me a apartment for myself] Once a week for food at night.
I hate myself more then anything. I wish I could be normal.
But in these years, I have learned english, so it's not all too bad.
But the lonelyness gets to you. Sometimes I lay on my floor and cry for hours, even though I don't even want to talk to anyone.
But I met a fellow hikikomori on mixi, and we share the same intrests, so maybe one day we will meet.
Sorry for the BAWWWWing. Haha.
Hopefully, one day I can leave the house without having a panic attack.
Tortured by the teachers, other students, gym coaches, or all three?
Not a hik myself, by nature of recognizing being far from home as a virtue. School sucked for me, though I found that as time progressed, idiots became rarer. As a freshman in high school, I was a marked man. By the time I was a senior, I was friends with some of the people who made fun of me early on.
How bad does it have to get before you go into hiding?
>>94
You have to love yourself, everything starts from there.
I recommend reading one chapter of Thus Spoke Zarathustra every day (one chapter has about 3 small pages) and thinking about it for a while.
Volunatary hermit here.
You're all a bunch of bawwwing faggots.
Hikkikomoris are constructs of Japanese culture. Social anxiety disorder is real, but I figure Hikkikomori = SocAnxDis + (Japanese culture + rapid modernization + changing expectations due to globalization).
It may actually be transitory, and may actually disappear as Japan sorts out its social issues and reconciles its culture with global society.
I originally dropped out of highschool and became a shut in for 1 1/2 years because of social anxiety and perfectionism... I thought I was too stupid to pass, which is funny considering I (like most of you) was in gifted classes at one point, and also always finished my tests first while getting A's on them, before I dropped out anyway. I'm suspecting Asperger's as well, but that's usually a scapegoat for just calling yourself a nerd.
People keep telling me on here that I'm just like them. Am I some sort of living stereotype for this thing?
>>101
People often tell me things like that. In that respect you're a lot like me.
The thing is, i hate going out. I have no joy in social encounters like drinking with someone or going to the movies or whatever.i feel so empty. YET when i'm watching an anime or movie where the people have fun and do activities i can actually FEEL that JOY..which is so wierd. In real life, i'm emotioneless and in the dreamworld i'm so happy.
If i want to go cry i have to put a moviescene or something like that to express myself.
I'm a shutin* by choice, and honestly..if i had enough money to continue this way i would.
I don't feel joy while watching TV or hanging out with friends, most of the time. Not even anime, or video games. And I'm not a shut-in. I grind daily for no reason.
So if you have something in your life that brings joy, at least you have something.
>>104 Yeah you got a point, hope you find that something*
You grind? What, like, on rails and stuff?
Doesn't grinding usually entail killing huge numbers of monsters in the same area in order to gain XP and thus level up your character?
Well, if he's not a shut-in and he gets outside... I'd like to know the area in which he finds all these monsters. I thought I saw one at the supermarket last week, but it just turned out to be a black man with elephantiasis.
im sure hes referring to the daily grind of life, but maybe...
He should learn to speak like an internetter.
I am a hikikomori and I live in Europe, are there any more out there?
There needs to be a hiki board like the 2ch one, but for people who speak English
No, no there doesn't.
>>112
There already is
http://www.anonib.com/hikki/
I don't think I'm a hiki,but I have some social problems,I'm afraid to speak and only have two "pseudo-friends" that I meet ocasionaly.During recess I stay at the classroom and read.My school is very big and has a bunch of students so I don't get bullied,but I know that I'm not the only one like that,even at my school there are a bunch of people withthis pathology.I don't know if any of you guys agree with me,but I think the world is becoming a lonely place.FOR EVERYONE.i'm brazilian by the way.
>>118
It's true! And humans are doomed to despair!
Satan have won!
I know a hikikomori but, he has disconected for msn and is withdrawing form society, its sad because i can't do anything.
>>99
It sounds like I'm where you were 1 1/2 years ago. Any advice?
>>123
Pull through, get to college, and become a math major.
I was diagnosed with Asperger's five years ago. All my free time is spent in front of the computer, as well as some of my non-free time (I'm typing this from school). I've never been a very social person, but I've never considered actually dropping out of school or any of that, and I do, in fact, want to make friends and such. You can say that I want to avoid the shut-in lifestyle at all costs, though I'm not very good at it.
I have Asperger's, but im not exactly a hikkimori. I do identify with hating the mainstream faggots though
I've got the 'pergs =\ I dig it though. I think we're kinda cool. I mean come on, an ailment that makes you awkward and goofy? Bring it on!
Seriously though, is it just me or is there a high concentration of users of the *chan boards with aspergers of some variation? They reckon aspergers could be the next evolutionary step y'know... and we're all gathered... >_> BURN DOWN THE PARLIAMENT!
yes we all have asperger's this has been established now everyone get back to reading your technical book of choice
ASSBURGERS LAWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
My psychiatrst claims I used to have Aspergers, but now it's mutated into another form of autism spectrum disorder. I suspect he's just saying that to be original.
Also, what's with my vericode being "skode" for the third time in two days?
I have nothing and no excuses.
I wish I did. щ(ﾟДﾟщ)
Also, my captcha is "thug," how cool is that?
Few years ago I got diagnosed with "a mild case of Aspergers" after filling in a questionnaire. A fucking questionnaire.
Is it wrong for me to be sceptical about the whole thing? Seems like the least consistent disorder in the world as well.
Somehow I feel all of the all three diagnosis are in "vogue" these days. A real hikki wouldn't leave say the room / house which if you live in the usa is impossible to pull off, since nobodys parents are willing to cowtow to their kids here like that.
I live in America and would like to have a foster hikki :3 I have a room for you/internet. Can even hook you up with all the things you need. Meals can be prepared and brought to your door. Let me know if you're interested.
yea the people with the No Life are so repulse!
I feel great sense of inner cleansing must be done when i witness the state of their home in the tv shows that our shown in Japan show when i go there! &_&
who are they thinking their life is?
Do they Are be of think that Life is a perceptorial componiment that is malleable very highly, and that fiction and the reality as sinonumous?? BU BU!!! >*<
They are vary krazy!! They shud go out like filip me to sean paul show, he has pecs and the life, also there are the artists who taek the life deeper! They are all living life!! If you sit in the home then obv your entiar brain shuts down and becomes non kommunicative! I know this because i have never tried being apahrt from before the soecity in my Life!!
Wow girl, feel me! This is the LIFE!!
He is just rubbing off on the bed and simulating sexual activity as me practiced and my kin! We LIVE it, yes yeah? We LIVE a preconcepted simimmimimulation la, whereas they take the indilgence as da Sepirate thing that it is from life!
Dey are so kookoo! Seeing liyf as intrinsic (BLING BLING WOOD UP SNOOPY SNOD! Soz just a shout out to girls, oh andd i am deep too, i can lift 200k! but am smart too i will tock about to you the Shakes Peare :)) rather than instrumental dey are BONKAHS!!!! LA!!!!
Wow i am a god!!! Yes and too also I speak the English did you know with the familiarity of your MIND!! Live the life with your greasy sock of a brilliant heart! Go forth with the tundrum velocity of tabletop goods and use mind well to carve life out like a Pinnochio! Also, make sure a life is created by skill!! :-)
Never forgat a bunch of things and have a poo on The MccArtney Paul's face because Anger is ME >-( RAAAA!!
o shitty here visits a hikikomori wiht a knife he is so WRONG and FUCKED!!! WHY????? COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS.
Yes yoody friends ok the byes!! Grow a Facial Hair.
> I speak the English
NO
>>136 made little to no sense.
Hi
>>138
At least he didn't say anything about how he doesn't our future.r
What
using google translator(or any online translator) does not automatically make the text readable another language
oh wow, always nice to see other hikikomori, there's some comfort in knowing there's millions of other people just like myself.
I've been at this since high school, 8 years now, almost.
I'm 143... just saying that I'm not in Japan. I'm in the US. The "hikikomori" thing just isn't a Japanese thing, there's a lot of people like this all around the world.
There seems to be elements touting "hikkikomori" as a glorified social label or trophy of reclusiveness. If anyone out there still holds the belief that "it's hip to be NEET", you're wrong. A fear of the demands of society to the point of totally withdrawing from the object of the fear in question shouldn't be diagnosed as any bullshit label an $30 an hour "psychiatrist" can come up with.
I tend to only really act like a hikikomori during the summer. I only left the house maybe three times excluding picking up food at the grocery store.
Now college started up again and it feels weird to be out and about? Anyone else a seasonal hikky like me?
> diagnosed as any bullshit label an $30 an hour "psychiatrist" can come up with.
Yeah because you know more about the human condition than a certified professional.
>>146
I believe it's a seasonal depression. I'm a winter type, so it's really hard for me to get higher education since I slowly lose my consciousness towards the mid-winter. I failed my winter exams and test for two years straight because of this.
I'm also a hikky.. maybe autist/aspi too, but not sure.
Atleast i'm not a NEET.
I sleep, go to work, go home, go in my room, do general stuff, go sleep. On weekends i'm watching anime, playing games, tv.. things in my room. I rarely go out.
Actually i want to stop this, but i even don't have much friends or ways/time to know new people. And even on chat/IM i rarely get myself up to talk, well write, with people.
I possibly already wrote on this thread, or on /personal/, but i'm bored so i write again. orz
> I'm also a hikky.. maybe autist/aspi too, but not sure.
And you're self-diagnosed too, that means a lot...
>>150
ok, but fact is i have some issues. i never wrote that those diagnoses are facts..
I'm a hikky. I have been diagnosed with Asperger's, but that was a few years ago and I think I've grown out of it/ the whole thing is a load of bullshit
>>149
You're a hikki and you go to work.
Mmmm...
Anonib hikki board is at http://anonib.com/hikikomori/ nowadays.
I've had periods in my life where I never went outside, I'm not autistic in any way though, just social anxiety (no idea where that came from either). The last 2 years I often stay home for a week or 2 every few months or so when it all becomes too much for me. I fear for the time when I have to go get a job, because then I really won't be able to do that anymore.
Nah, I don't think I'm autistic or anything like that,
but I basically...
Wake Up - Go to School - Come home - Go in room - Go on computer - Go on computer more - Eat - Watch TV - Go on computer - Sleep.
I dunno if that's considered hikki, but I really don't talk to anyone at school and I just stay indoors all day. Is it hikki?
>>155 That's pretty much what my life is when I have school. That's not hikki in my book. Out of curiosity, what is your life like during the summer or winter breaks?
In the breaks, It's basically that but erase school and coming home.
So I'm in my room 24/7 basically.
I'm a recovering hikky on antidepressants. Also, I think I may have got AnonIB into trouble again during a recent paranoid episode. With Google, no less. :(
Oh, and also my wallet containing my Free Software Foundation membership card is missing. Police don't seem to be overly concerned. :(
Like the above poster, I am also a recovering hikikomori.
I stumbled across this page after looking up the term "hikikomori" in Google to see what kind of pages I'd all find on the subject of the hikikomori phenomenon.
A few weeks ago, I signed up to a site called HikiCulture; I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with it or not, but besides the AnonIB hikikomori board and this place, it seems to be the only option for hikikomoris to go to for discussion - http://www.hikiculture.com.
Anyway, it looks like this place has been somewhat active recently; I will try to post often.
i think http://4-ch.net/personal/
is a better board for this..
I've been a hikikomori for 5 years, ask me anything.
I live with my dad, I go outside about once every couple months, I socialize with other people a couple times a year and people seem to like me. I'd like to think I don't have much of the problems shut-ins have. So why am I a shut-in? Good question. I should start studying to get into a college...
For you school goers (recovering hikkis, or people who just go to school and nothing else, not really hikki but close enough), what do you do during your breaks?
I have done this (in order):
Nowadays I just sit quietly with people from my class, but it's not really helping me socialize much. I'm curious what other people do.
>>159 That's a nice, active, forum (with some focus on autism too, if you have that), but it's unfortunate the administrator there is a manipulative bastard. Those kind of admins always eventually cause the downfall of their own forum.
I don't know if I'm considered hikikomori, though I'm pretty sure I'd be considered "parasite single" or "twixter".
29 year old male, just finishing his first college degree after getting out of a 5 year "serious" relationship that drove him to become obese (sitting at 300 lbs now).
I don't go out much, as the earlier poster stated it's usually fast food restaurant drive through, school, fast food restaurant drive through, home, internet, sleep. repeat until weekend then internet, internet, sleep. i'm not incredibly antisocial, i just feel like i'm not cool enough for most people to want to hang around with anyway.
sad thing is, it's been about 5 years since i've had the luxury of a female who desires me, or any romantic female human contact of any kind. (hugs/kisses.etc) and being a fat guy, no girl that's remotely attractive would waste two seconds on me.
sometimes i think i'm going to be alone forever.
>>164
every time i use the toilet. XD
my problem is basically 3 things.
-Poor diet (aka the twice a day visits to fast food)
-Poor metabolism (i lose weight EXTREMELY slowly, even at this weight, when i actually go through the whole rigmarole of planning meals, eating 3times+ a day super healthy low fat meals (protein and a complex carb) and excercising (at least an hour of cardio a day 5 days a week) i still only manage to lose 1-2 pounds a week. while i can gain like 3 pounds a week no prob)
-lack of motivation to exercise due to inadequate returns (see number 2)
most of my weight is torso weight, with some on my thighs but not much comparatively. the only upside to being fat, i have super buff legs lol.
>>165 cont.
probably doesn't help that i'm 5'6 either...
Increase your exercise program every week. Maybe that will help. And your sleeping time shouldn't exceed 11pm.
Is anonib.com/hikki dead? I haven't been able to access it for the last few months.
>>168
I'm quite sure it got kicked off the host because of complaints again. Sucks for hikki, but understandable considering the content on some other boards. There were really only 3 boards or so on there that had some content you wouldn't find elsewhere.
Maybe anonib will return someday again, but to be honest I don't really care if hikki comes back or not... the number of users and the quality of posts both seemed to be declining.
found this while looking for the anonib board. pissed that it's gone, the only place i ever looked at there.
heard some of the /hikki/ people are on twitter but it's not the same. time to start a board dunno.
You may find interest in this board. It was started by someone from 4chan a long time ago. The abbreviation means True Otaku Hiki Neet Organization - only a semi-serious name. It's fairly oriented to the anime/manga/touhou/idol crowd however.
I don't think anonib/hiki is ever coming back D: I am glad I found this on the third page of google's search results.
Rural area, America
White (Norwegian)
16
Male
Yesterday I signed up for therapy by filling out an online form. The site they had was quite impressive and the methods they use seem quite thorough, with lots of opportunities for feedback. I had to give a brief explanation of my (hikki) problems, it took me like 2 hours to write it. I was expecting them to call me all day, so I was nervous all day long, but no call today. Hopefully they'll call me tomorrow because this is too stressful.
Aspergers sufferer here (Yes. diagnosed professionally) . Its horrible, maybe its the fact that its coupled with other mental problems but I have fucking failed at everything I ever do in life. They say aspies are really really smart individuals and do well in life. Well for me I have done horrible at everything, I was never one to be overly smart infact I barely even understand any of the basic shit thought in secondary school. I never arranged things in patterns and orders like they say either, just one messy fuck. I have however taken an interest in a particular area (aviation) but to be honest, I really dont know fuck all other than the names and models of a few aircrafts.
Failed school, didn't qualify for college and nobody wants me to work because I have no qualifications and when I have worked I can't seem to do it right even if its basic shit like operating a cash reg. This has fucked my life over, why couldn't I just be born normal? FUCK!
Never really was a hikki, as mentioned above western society doesnt really permit it but I did stay in my room as much as I could playing WoW and other games for a good few months, only contact I got was with my parents and when I went to the shops (which I had to be forced to go and it made me nervous as hell). I'm improving though!
God, this thread. I have no words.
Drugs made me normal.
I misread that as "Drugs make me mortal."
...it's a depressing thought.
God help me. I've lost everything.
Hello! I made this board: http://vip-quality.org/neet/
Please post there if you're a hiki! It'd mean a lot to me.
I don't talk much, because really I have nothing to say
But when I do nobody really cares
http://www.kindaikobo.com/staffblog/?p=239
Please comment.
I have book marked your board. That is one thing I miss, smaller, less known text boards. They used to be really common many years ago, but people lost interest. They are my favourite way to communicate with the real world, even though most of us are in similar situations.
>>186
Why do you think that people don't go on textboards as often?
2012, year of the textboard ...
Forgot to shower today...
Oh, and I failed my driver's test.
humbug
i have never seen a girl's tittehs outside of anime
My only joy in life is alcohol and anime.
And I just stopped drinking....
>>29
But it does. It's happening in every postindustrial society.
>>29,194
Talking 10 years into the past, the sort of exciting time-warping experiences made possible on so-dead-it-belongs-in-a-museum dead boards.