If physical or mental health issues bar you I’d consider that different. I never really understood how you can live your life being a NEET. Its a term I’ve known about for awhile but only recently remembered was a thing. Do you have bills? Do you have autonomy in general? Whats the living situation look like? Is the term offensive? I have a ton of questions really. Not here to shit on anyone I’m just full of curiosity on this one.
I was talking to a homeless man a few years back that was a brick layer, his wife got into drugs and took his kids from him. He fought in court for them but lost (they, the kids, wanted to stay with their mom) and got slapped with pretty alimony. He eventually just quit caring, quite going to work, and decided to just live on the streets. He panhandles and saves up to get a hotel room every few weeks, cleans up, and goes to the bars to pick up chicks.
At least all according to him while we were chatting
Sounds like a real rough life.
Was this at a bar?
No he asked for some food so I said sure cause I could eat some too.
I suffer from major depression and have since I was a kid. I was diagnosed at fifty to be ASD and a recent assessment in March confirmed I’m spectrum AF.
I worked for a few years and was nearly driven to suicide and have been on disability ever since. Not a bad thing. All my career hopes either required education and credentials I couldn’t ever afford to acquire, or had spirit-crushing consequences (e.g. crunching, which practically all video-game developers are required to suffer).
Damn thats a heavy cross to bear. Sorry you deal with that.
Because these bastards won’t hire me!
No longer a NEET but when I was I had very few bills. My parents paid for most of my living expenses and other things I funded by boosting other players in videogames mostly league of legends and RuneScape. I didn’t have a lot of autonomy but I also didn’t really want anything so it was never a real issue. Looking back on it it was very bleak but at the time I was happy enough playing video games and coding little projects. I rarely left the house maybe once a month. I don’t think the term is offensive.
I feel like it would be bleak in retrospect but maybe not that bad when you’re in it. So that makes sense interesting. Thanks!
I can’t give a first hand account on this, but my middle aged cousin is one so I can give a second hand account. It’s been a combination of things. She had health problems as a baby and genuinely needed a lot of care and attention for a while. But she has been treated with those kid gloves her entire life. She was never pushed to do anything she didn’t want and also hs never had the drive or ambition to do anything either. She’s never even had any hobbies. And AFAIK, she still lives with her parents and they pay for everything.
It wasn’t until her mid to late 30s that I stopped asking or caring about her life. I still love her but we’re all worried about what’s going to happen when her parents die. Cause none of us are willing to take her in and keep enabling her behavior.
You don’t need to have a job to have value, but you do need something. Sitting on the couch all day isn’t a life. And I say this as a couch potato. Seriously, I’m writing this from my couch.
