Springblossom said:
Null said:
A lot of them hold low-paying jobs and live on their own. They are just recluses.
Are we talking about the same site? A lot of the ones I'm seeing are kids in their early twenties who are just straight-up NEETs; living with parents, no friends, no schooling beyond high school (if that), nothing going for them.
Of course, you've been in Wizard IRC, and I haven't.
I'm not saying that they all, or even the majority, live on their own, but there is a significant number of them that either work online or work for a job that requires no social contact but still earns enough to pay rent. You can't be truly NEET if you're around family.
As far as your definition goes, I live in a city where I don't know anybody, I have no certificate of graduation for highschool or college, and I work online. On an average day I will talk to maybe one person at a store, if I decide to get a coffee. I fit your description better than most people on Wizardchan do. The difference is I have a pretty decent career going for me, and I neither feel inclined to seek nor impossibly far from ever having a relationship. I also got banned from their IRC channel a while back literally for defending a woman's ability to enjoy sex. They were on some rant about how all women are sluts who just really like getting fucked and I meekly pointed out that that doesn't really matter.
Being NEET, living with parents, living with friends, what you do or what level of education you have doesn't place you as one of their lot. You need to truly resent society before you can even try to fit in around them.