u/GodComplexMonkey

I'm not your typical self-hating NEETcel who's afraid of their own shadow so I've started hitchhiking, trainhopping, and working in exhange for roof and board.

I'm a homeless queer and trauma coded autist w/ ADHD and Bipolar II so don't fucking @ me w/ your problems. That's not even mentioning my physical disabilities.

Once you know how to clean and fix things as a NEET you essentially become the equivalent of an illegal immigrant, unemployable to corporate, but high in-demand everywhere else.

I live to do drugs, fuck randos, and hail Satan! 🤘

I want to make it clear upfront that I do not think women have it easier than men or subscribe to any incel redpill logic. I believe that we live in a heteronormative patriarchical society and that the same system that oppresses women oppresses men too differently.

I liken it to this; men are dying of thirst and dehydration trapped in a desert, and women are dying of thirst and dehydration in the ocean. One has virtually no options, and the other is drowning in bad ones.

That being said, while I do not want to diminish the experiences of isolation and alienation that my fellow woman NEETs experience, whether it be due to lookism, racism, ableism, etc., I have had and do have many personal anecdotes about how different the NEET experience for us can sometimes be.

Women are basically raised and expected to be NEETs, which is terrible, but imo that means that people don't look at it as much of a character flaw in a woman than they do a man (not always the case, I've met women NEETs that are guilted and shamed for unemployment like men).

My sister is a perfect example. She's a long-term on-and-off again NEET that will seek out men to partially-move-out of our home for awhile but because she has a friend, gets boyfriends, etc, she and others don't even perceive her as a loser like my brother or I.

I'm also becoming friends with this non-binary person that is very feminine in appearance who is obesely overweight and yet has three handsome men in her orbit. How can I possibly compete with that? I know there are plenty of fat women who experience lifelong loneliness but just as often in my experience it is so much easier for them to find people that want them.