Is it a lifestyle thing or a mental health thing?
Bit of both, with a dash of enablers (usually parents).
Comment on Anon's sister is a NEET shut-in
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Probably a bit more than a dash.
halvar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 7 months ago
Most times neet’s are people with mental health issues or depression also.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’d say the stuff about having meltdowns and the way it’s described points toward autism, 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.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yikes
shani66@ani.social 7 months ago
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.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Its mental health, no one hides from the world if they don’t have a reason to hide.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 7 months ago
I 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.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 7 months ago
Yea, here where I live there is a culture of most jobs being seasonal work, so a good amount of people end up being NEET’s for about half a yera or less because of the lack of regular jobs and surpluss of seasonal work that’s most times only 3-6 month’s long.
You could say we are forced to be neet’s whenever touristseason isn’t ongoing.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The picture also looks a lot like Futaba from Persona 5, who is a hikikomori.
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reddit_sux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Just say loser lol