In short a hikikomori is someone who completely shuts themself out from society for months or years. They are based in Japan but let’s face it… hikikomoris are all over the world.
Watch a documentary sometime? many have suicided as well, but not all.
Anyway they give us insight into how awful society really is. Many live with their parents and they are financially supported by them, but if the parents die their child eventually dies too because the money runs out.
If society wasn’t so awful I guarantee there would be far less hikikomoris…
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Lying Flat in China and MGTOW in the Western countries.
“If society wasn’t so awful I guarantee there would be far less hikikomoris”
Indeed.
totally… i think hikikomoris are the harbingers of things to come in this world we’ve created. i’m technically a hikikomori except that my self imposed exile isn’t by choice; it’s a forced reaction to a very local setting. I would love to mingle in an anonymous diverse city, seek out kindred souls, but here in shitsville where i don’t fit in with the template… best to stay inside.
one way or another, yes, the problem isn’t with the hikikomori. the problem is with the society that surrounds and imprisons them. i suppose outside japan it falls under the label of agoraphobia but that’s not quite the same. i don’t think hikikomoris necessarily fear people, it think they fear the fundamental system of society that suffocates them
Hihikomori may be a Japanese term, but the same people exists in other countries. I know in the US there’s MANY of us. We’re just called “hermits” or recluses, loners, anti-social, etc.
I’m pretty much a hihikomori at this point. And no, it’s not a fear of ppl or agoraphobia, but more like don’t want to be around society as it currently is.