in Japan we are called Hikikomori

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

Thats the name for a puzzling trend of some young people in Japan to become recluses, or 'urban hermits'. Its not really "the Japanese word for 'autistic'".

Though there probably is some overlap between hikikomori and autistics/aspies.

it is japanese for hemmasittare (a person who sits at home and never really leaves the house/apartment) according to wiki. I am not sucha person at all!

No. Not the same thing.

I do live the hikki lifestyle since there is no place for me otherwise.

I've read hikki fiction and I don't know whether what I want to say is allowed by rules, I'll try to read them and I might endit thus.

hikki fiction?

Novels about folks who stay home all of the time?

All anime respects hikki since they are a large customer group.

They always allude to it, especially the Isekai kind.

Still, Welcome to NHK is legit hikki anime irregardless and it also has novel and manga versions for whoever loves so.

We are seen more highly by the Japanese than we're seen by people in the western world.

If I was going to be a Hikikomori, I would at least live in an upper floor flat so when I die my liquidating corpse will leak through the ceiling of the flat below and spoil Christmas.

Do hikis ever get hickeys?

Not all aspies are hikikomori. However, those on the spectrum do have a higher likelihood of becoming a hikikomori, or even a NEET. I was both of those for a short while.

What is a "NEET"?

Not Employed, in Education or Training

Samuel Beckett could make it work.

I would personally love to live this lifestyle. For the most part I do due to being unemployed. I am unemployed due to very severe burnout and very unsuccessfully coexisting and thriving with society at large. I tell myself daily, shame on me.

I am a very big failure to society’s eyes. To my eyes though, I am constantly finding my inner truth. That most don’t.

But my parents are aging. I don’t have many people. So this feels scary. Hope more gets figured out by then. Or I’m f****d.

People becoming hikikomori is a social phenomenon caused by Japanese society's high standards of people, esp. Men to have a job, get married and conform to society's standards in general.

Comparing with the western societies, conforming to society is much more important there and mental health/developmental disorders awareness is also not very high. From what i know suicide rates are also very high there.

There might be an overlap between autistic people and hikikomori but many nt s also can't conform to the strict societal rules for various other reasons.