Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

It's just really interesting there's a word

I've been trying to wrap my head around this disabling state I've been in for the last 18 months. And this is the first time I've come across something so descriptive of my current state.

I'm on disability right now and terribly isolated. A level of functioning I used to take for granted seems unattainable most days, and suicide ideation is frequent companion.

Wikipedia: "hikikomori (Japanese: ひきこもり or 引き篭もり, lit. 'pulling inward, being confined', i.e., 'acute social withdrawal'; colloquially/adaptive translation: 'shutter') are reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement."

hikikomori is an interesting word.

i guess i live in a different culture, but the story about the hikikomori in hatoful boyfriend: holiday star had me triggered.

gonna miss threaded posts, tbh.

most of the great tumblr post were actually threads where people riffed off of each other, sometimes just to dunk on the op