Who is a hikikomori?

[Tiberium Wolf]

I think I can classify myself as very close to it.

Now "deal" with it? Why should I? As long as you got food, computer and internet the rest of the world doesn't matter at all.

I am 27 years old, no social life and since now I am unemployed I only got out of the house to buy food or for job interviews.

[Itachi-evil]

What is your educational qualifaction?

Mine is just high school........

Now i haven't made a single step out of the apartement for for half a year now.

I can never imagine be being in a normal job anyways.

I prefer starving to death one day than working to buy food.

[Tiberium Wolf]

Currently I am in my 9th year in the university. I shouldn't have gone to computer science coz it's all programming. Not it's too late coz with the bolonha proccess the major is now 3 year instead of 5. So I have just 3 subjects to finish, in which I have failed 4x each... LOL... miserable isn't it?

Trying to get a shop in computer shop. Interview in 9th and then wait if they say something plus search for other jobs. Still I need to get a job coz I need money.

[Itachi-evil]

What about university fees ?

Well in some countries you need not to pay for university-fess.

Even then, with my high-school grades, none of the university would let me in, even if that would be kinda pathethic........

Damn i can't even imagine when i get kicked out by my parents......just got nothic, can do anything..............

I JUST HATE REALITY!!

I wish am a manga/anime character.

[Tiberium Wolf]

My parents pay 850 euros per year. Not to say food and the house rent(150 euros)..

I only started working last november and quit at june this year.


Other words I am a parasite.

[Itachi-evil]

Well i am nothing better............

Shit, and i can't see how this will change........

Well soon enough i think i will be a homeless-guy, or i end it in time...........

Damn reality.

It would be so great when the animes/mangs would be the real reality!

Always a solution, surrounded by beautiful women, always there a coincidences between the two gender xD.

Damn i think i am more pathethic than Satou-kun form N.H.K ni Yokuso..........

[CandyVanMan]

I consider myself a part-timer considering I actually have a well-paying job and a wife. Beyond that, I'm the creepy guy in the neighborhood.

I probably get a maximum of a half hour of sunlight per day (during the commute home). Being a programmer, my job only requires me to communicate in code or via Email.

I do go to Waldenbooks to buy manga but I often get looked at... talked about... harassed while I'm at the mall so it's a very uncomfortable experience. I always feel eyes on me.

I don't know anybody except my wife. I barely visit my own family. Holidays suck. I always freak my relatives out. In fact, you're looking at the limit of my social contact with real people. I'm even afraid to use Chat; it feels too real.

My wife talks about what we could do if we won the lottery. I usually tell her "I would crash and burn so bad..."

[Cyz]

I think I'm close to that too. Well, it's not that I don't go out at all. It's just that there's nothing much to do outside and since I don't have friends here...well, socializing is just pointless in my end.

[Aoie_Emesai]

I usually think of that term as a negative word meaning one who has no life external life outside of their dwelling. I doubt i'm one, but I do have days in which I want no human contact, (like right after a long day at work).

[Asai]

I'd be considered one, by most standards. Though I don't live with my parents, and own several houses. Though I made the money for those investments in a job that involved very little interaction with others; I've had several jobs over the years, and all of them involved no or close to nil contact with people. I was lucky in the regard that I was able to get myself financially secure while in environments that were suitable for me, thus can't really be lumped in the 'living in parents basement' category. (not that I've ever seen a house in this country with a basement.)

I grew up with very little interaction with others. Had no friends through almost twenty years of schooling, had no real co-workers in any of my jobs and now I'm 'retired' I have no contact with anybody offline, save my mother visiting occasionally, and my brother once a blue moon.

Why? Because I dislike people. It's pretty much that simple. It's a conscious choice I made, and a lifestyle I maintain. How do I deal with it? Well. What's to deal with. It's easier -not- dealing with people. I'm quite happy being a 'crazy cat lady' (though I've always had all sorts of animals, not just cats... cats are just the best )

Though, I'm a bit different in that I have always, and still do take my dog(s) for walks daily (well. Not the past two months since I have a broken leg.) and get at least a bit of sunlight. I also don't freeze up when faced with others. I'm certainly no social butterfly, but I can handle people if forced to. But, the world these days has made that a lot easier. I order almost everything online, so aside from my regular day-to-day goods, I don't even need to deal with salespeople or anything.

If it weren't for my dogs, and having to go shopping every once in a while, I could very easily go months without leaving the house. Don't see the problem. ^^

For people who're lucky enough to be reliant on others, then, power to 'em. If their parents are okay with supporting them forever, then no worries. As long as they have assets that will continue to support them after they die, of course. Gotta plan ahead. S'why I invested in real estate. Don't have to worry about money ever again. ^^ Only thing that is of concern with hikkies, I think.

[WanderingKnight]

I wouldn't know... if I didn't have to work and go to university, then I'd be spending most of the time home. However, I do have friends and I do enjoy a lot being with them. Which doesn't mean I particularly like being outside or with a lot of people. My ideal outings with friends include being in a really small group. Big groups of people bother me, specially when I don't know most of them (it's funny the great amount of times I've been in such a situation). In fact, in university, I made a couple of friends, and for the rest of people I might just as well be considered really unfriendly. But that's probably because I look down on a lot of people that don't meet certain "standards", so to speak, so if I think you're stupid, I'll probably ignore you.

With my true friends the situation is different, and I can allow myself to be more authentic and friendly. I'm a really nice guy if you ever get me to like you

[Mizuno]

Everyone is confessing so there's nothing shy about saying it flat out then.

Yes, I'm an introvert and being 'unlucky' in my social life or lack thereof doesn't help at all. However, I DO like to have friends and company despite how little of them I have got. But I have lack the charm and the conversational skills required to become real friends with someone.

[Itachi-evil]

xD

And here i am back again to my pc.......

Nothing to do, just surfing on the same sites^^.

Is there eventually a hikkikomori-community on the web?

[Mizuno]

It might be interesting to have a Hikikomori Cafe or something, for us to hang out and discuss our secret agendas...

[Asai]

A hikikomori community seems a bit of an oxymoron. >.>

[Itachi-evil]

That is a bit of a contradiction, i know, but it is a internet community, so it should be no porblem.
You won't see the outside world.....

[-KarumA-]

im not sure whether i am one or not...

i grew up with hardly any social communication with anyone, even my own parents...
didnt have any friends untill i was about 15 years old...
at school never bothered to socialise with people because they were all evil back stabbers and only talked to me when they needed something
spend most of my live staying home in the evenings, though i am trying to socialse atm it just takes some time, but i never go to places where i know noone, i hate making new friends
hardly spoke to my fellow classmates for months because i didnt trust them
eventually they thought i was really shy and cute untill i got drunk and started to throw waffles at people for fun o.o; now they think im psycho
i still live home, 2nd year of college, pay most of the fees for my education and cant afford an appartment, let alone school's like 30 minutes with the train and im there and my dad cooks wonderfull indonesian meals :3
i have several friends and a lot of people like to have me around but i just dont know how to act like one because i never had any friends, i dont have the guts to call someone up and to hang out, i wouldnt veen know what to do when people stand at my doorstep
i deliver mail as a side job beside my study, i talk with people whenever i need to
you could say there's two sides to me, one quiet and anti social and the other is much wilder and can make friends with anyone or scare people
people think im whacko because my imagination runs overload day and night so sometimes i blurt out funny weird plots and tell them about it or just act funny which in their eyes can be considered weird, i only act like this when i know people would accept my behavior

[kitto-chan]

lol @ thread. This is one of the most humorous topic I have ever encounter. Now most people I know of are not per se Hikkomirori(spell) but most are not wanting social interaction myself included. I work 6 days a week, go to school at night get home @ about 10:00pm. No time left really for going out. Been this way for the last 2 years, and now that I thought about it recently (ahem after reading this thread) I now realize I have developed a small fear of socializing in public, or better I now fear that I would make an @ss out of myself in public. Now I wonder does that make me a hikko?

P.S. A-person that descprition is exactly like the description of a hikko use in Welcome to the NHK

[Itachi-evil]

Why is this topic humorous?

Yeah Satou-kun from NHK.....i think e is more of a paranoid than a hikkikomori.....
Well then again i resemble him......

[kitto-chan]

its just funny reading about people spilling their fears and insecurity on the web instead of to people they actually know.

But back on topic. I am not a hikko and I will deny that till I die.