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Well, NEET carries certain connotations too. The Tokyopop translation of Welcome to the NHK! even defined it as a recent euphemism for hikikomori, though I'm not sure how accurate that is.

I just didn't want to call myself a hikikomori because that's a little obnoxious. Like identifying as a "hacker" instead of a "programming" or "coder". Feels like the kind of term that can only be conferred upon you by someone else.