Whenever people mention Wikipedia, I always tend to hear someone mocking it in some way —— why? The only place I find Wikipedia to not be such a great resource is when it comes to medical-related topics. It’s often that I notice huge inaccuracies and a lack of sufficient data when it comes to (seemingly) most medical-related topics; one good example is the Wikipedia article on Asperger’s - it simply doesn’t delve deep enough into what Asperger’s really is. The Wikipedia article on Asperger’s is definitely not the first web-page I want people to check out when I want to give people insight into what Asperger’s really is like. I won’t elaborate on what the article lacks, but one thing is that it doesn’t even mention ‘stimming’ anywhere on the page, which is a huge flaw in my opinion.
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20091122 @ 0032
HC isn’t solely for individuals who live a hikikomori-lifestyle.
I’ve read posts on various boards where people criticize the site, saying things such as “the people on HC aren’t even hikikomori”. HikiCulture isn’t only for people living a hikikomori-lifestyle though; it is for people who live a reclusive lifestyle to any degree. Even non-reclusive people can sign up to HikiCulture - they probably won’t get much out of the site though.
The user Syppress of the forum said the following in this forum topic:
“I’m just getting tired of posts saying that you have to be a “true” hikikomori to post here.”
I responded with:
“Don’t let those kinds of posts make you mad.
People who say that you must be a true hikikomori to post here are likely just Japanophiles who cringe upon hearing people using non-Japanese terms such as ‘recluse’ or ‘seclusion’. Don’t let their foolish mentalities get to you.
The ‘hiki’ part in ‘HikiCulture’ is just a derivation of the word hikikomori; that’s all it should be looked at as being. Maybe only 10% (if I’d have to guess) or less of the users here are true hikikomori. While it is a fairly significant amount of people, it is still a great minority.
When I created this site, I initially used the slogans ‘A Place For Hikikomori’ and ‘Hikikomori Support Forum’, but eventually changed it to ‘A Place For Reclusive People’ and finally ‘A Forum For Reclusive People’ (which is gonna be the final slogan, I promise). The reason why I changed the slogan was because I was nervous that people from AnonIB and HikikomoriForum who view the hikikomori phenomenon as being a ‘cool’ thing would show up here. This place simply is not for people who view an extremely reclusive lifestyle as being ‘cool’; the most extreme hikikomori of Japan or elsewhere would never view such a thing as being ‘cool’. One more reason for changing the slogan was because I wanted to let people be aware that this place wasn’t only for people who live extremely reclusive lifestyles (hikikomori), and realized that the initial two site-slogans were somewhat misleading, considering that such a small minority of the users here were really living hikikomori-lifestyles.
From the very beginning, I allowed people on any part of the reclusive ‘spectrum’ to join up here; hell, even non-reclusive people can join if they want to - I just don’t think they’d get much use out of this place.”
I hope that it’s now clear to people that HikiCulture isn’t only for people who live a hikikomori-lifestyle.
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20091121 @ 1251
I decided to create this blog post to let you people be aware that me and Quasar will be selecting new HikiCulture VIPs at the start of each month. To become a VIP, there’s not anything to it; we’ll pretty much make anyone a VIP as long as they post on the site frequently and have good posts to contribute. There will of course be exceptions, like if a forum-member is a close friend to a staff-member they can receive VIP status without having to post frequently (for example). I’ll admit: receiving ‘VIP’ status isn’t really a huge deal; you get a custom title (if you wish to have one), have access to the ‘VIP Club’ and have a shiny animated VIP rank icon below your user-name! (yay!) Make sure to not take the Very Important Person too literally - everyone on the site who has something to contribute is important, we just want the main contributors/good posters to stand out. For you ‘regular users’: think of the VIPs as being people you can trust and rely on (well, most of them, haha). We will never select people we don’t feel are ‘VIP worthy’ to become VIPs. I’d like to thank all of the current VIPs:
Hypnos
Namae Tsukawanai
XBlacky
KuriHeartsYou
MoonChaser
Kobael
Midnightlight
Hatake
Estranged
Aphrodisiac
Trigun31
Soleiyu
S2
Josh151
Xander1011
Gregor
Zen Mei
HikiMickey
Syppress
OneSapphire
RobbyBobson
Moss
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20091119 @ 2207
My family and the friends I used to have are long gone now. Once I begun living a reclusive lifestyle, my family disowned me. Besides my brother, dad and sister, I’ve not heard from a single family member for over five years now - not even when it’s my birthday or Christmas do I hear from them. I’ve been forgotten.
In the future, I plan to move away and not let anyone know about my whereabouts. I won’t even tell any of my family members where I’ll be living (why would they care anyway if they’ve not tried to get in contact with me for so many years now?). If I’m ever to contact a family member, I will make a ‘private’ phone-call to them so that they can’t trace the call. I just want to forget about the past, and my family.
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20091118 @ 1023
I’ll be spending the next little while reading a book titled A Son of the Circus, which is an acclaimed novel by the fiction author John Irving. It’s been far too long now that I’ve gone without reading literature of any sort, so I pretty much have to read something at this point; if I don’t, I’ll perhaps forget how to read.
Anyway, it should be nice reading a book after not having read one for so long. I’m getting excited to read this book, because the previous few John Irving novels I read were phenomenal. The last John Irving novel I read was The Cider House Rules, and I can honestly say that it was one of the best novels I have ever read.
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20091118 @ 0831
Damn, is it ever nice! 
