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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.