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JustFoundHere
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09 Sep 2019, 5:55 pm

Personally, a form of pseudo Hikikomori (for lack of a better term) has increasingly become a go to sentiment; on account of an ever more crazier world; which more and more of us here in the U.S. are understanding a little too well!

Actually, Hikikomori can be misleading; as I periodically often step away from modern-TECH. (I don't use smartphones - a home PC is just fine), and the predictability of my small condo. unit to take-in a region which still retains those awesome ever rarer qualities.



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01 Oct 2019, 5:46 am

I came across the following just now, by John Elder Robison: Autism in the South Pacific: A Different Way of Seeing? Might Polynesian society show a "lost" way of accommodating autism? Feb 26, 2017.


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01 Oct 2019, 2:07 pm

cyberdad wrote:
blackomen wrote:
A lot of collectivist cultures like Scandinavia and even Japan don't seem to stigmatize AS as much as China. Japan has Hikkikomori culture and while Hikkikomoris are somewhat outcasts, they also seem to be somewhat accepted as being part of their culture these days.

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


Hikikomori is an extreme form of social anxiety caused by social stigma for being perceived as different. Japanese are "uber-collectivist"

Scandanavians are individualistic....


Yet, they have the Law of Jante. That doesn't sound very individualistic to me.