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I’d never really heard the term NEET before and had to do some research. I get what is, but not really why it is.

Is it a lifestyle thing or a mental health thing?

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I heard it but I never had an idea what it meant, so I looked it up. NEET means they aren’t in education and don’t have a job employment.

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Most times neet’s are people with mental health issues or depression also.

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Is it a lifestyle thing or a mental health thing?

Bit of both, with a dash of enablers (usually parents).

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Probably a bit more than a dash.

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NEET is is an economic label that means Not in Employment Education or Training. Its the group often looked down on as leeches in society but the term doesn’t consider the reasons or health of the person.

The sister in the post appears much more like the Japanese shutins or hikikomori who isolate themselves from all social contact. Technically being a hikikomori is a choice but mental health and big pressure culture probably dont help.

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In most cases the culture and mental health are the reason a lot of them will choose that lifestyle, still not 100% by their own free will.

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Thats what i meant with “technically” a choice

The ironic part in this is that ecologically/footprint speaking the impact might be pretty positive compared to going out.

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-40 points

Just say loser lol

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The picture also looks a lot like Futaba from Persona 5, who is a hikikomori.

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Its the group often looked down on as leeches

im still trying to figure out why people hate the fact that people leech off of shit.

Like unless we’re going turbo functionalist society where we define suicide as a normal aspect of everyday life, it seems rather. Dystopian to be claiming that everybody must be a part of society.

economists are fucking weird dude.

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TIL NEET means something else. For I thought it was only an enterance test in India to get into medical education. It is super competitive and toppers are usually shut-ins, studying for 14-16 hours a day.

The exams are held in may so for kids to go in hibernation since January is common place.

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Normally it’s used to indicate a lifestyle which probably has an underlying mental health component. But the girl in this story is just really really autistic. IDK why the OP didn’t describe her as such once.

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How do you know she’s autistic? Maybe she’s depressed, experiences severe social anxiety, or something else of that nature. I see no reason to jump to autism as the explanation, there just isn’t enough context.

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I’d say the stuff about having meltdowns and the way it’s described points toward autism, particularly the Christmas incident, but it could be something else. I say this as someone on the spectrum myself, though far more able to function without support than the girl in the story.

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Yikes

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Its mental health, no one hides from the world if they don’t have a reason to hide.

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Yes. As for why, why not? If you can it’s probably the single best was to live life. Most jobs are entirely unfulfilling, unnecessary bullshit jobs that stack even more unfulfilling, unnecessary bullshit on top of it. the important work is, like, maybe a tenth of all actual work done and that’s still usually done by people who get treated like shit, sucking out whatever meaning they might be able to find.

Education is good, but left to their own devices most humans will educate themselves to some degree, so it’s not like NEET necessarily means a lack of self improvement either. Not that that’s the only measure of a good life.

And that’s before taking into account mental health issues that our society creates.

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i think it’s more of a situational thing. I.E. used to shit on people who aren’t “part of the work force” although now it’s been codified into a bit of slang, since it’s technically an acronym now.

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131 points

Expected a weird twist, got pleasantly surprised

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I thought it was some weird sex thing at first but you never know what you get with greentexts.

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I saw shower and started worrying but it’s OK.

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8 points

The proliferation of anime and Internet porn has mortally wounded familial relationships.

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146 points

Anon is a normal, decent human being and sibling.

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I wouldn’t go that far. He’s being decent to his sister, but there could be ulterior motives here. I’ve learned to never trust a 4chan post.

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tldw

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28 points

I was half expecting an eromanga sensei thing

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How many times do we have to say it… Don’t fuck your sister.

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BUT!

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