Subreddits for Millennials on the fringe to rejoin the center

[AspieMillennial]

(04-14-2019, 08:17 AM)sbarrera Wrote:

(04-14-2019, 06:17 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote:

(04-13-2019, 08:50 AM)sbarrera Wrote:

(03-28-2019, 04:04 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:

(03-11-2019, 12:54 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote: This makes sense. Prophetic generations tend to drop out of the mainstream, civics do the opposite. The more we see this sort of things, the closer the 1T is.

Then explain why so many Millennials are NEETs by choice, especially ones with autism or who don't fit in with their peers? For the individualistic Millennials many of us decide to reject the entire world around us. What's less mainstream than that?

Well, if they all do it, it becomes mainstream.  

They aren't all doing it though. It's a minority of people who don't fit in with their peers or elders. I'm talking about this specific minority.

All I can say is that someone who finds it difficult to fit in socially would, by definition, have a hard time joining the mainstream then. It's different for a kid who is raised Mormon or ant-vax and decides that the way they are being raised is bullshit and they just want to be like the majority. They are breaking away from their environment and finding a new environment - one they know exists because they are aware of other social worlds. But if a kid can't fit into any social world then it's different. 

So what % of Millennials are NEETs? That would be the question I would look to answer first.

This wouldn't be an accurate gauge for me because I'm not counting people who are unemployed by no choice of their own even though technically they are NEETs. I'm not talking about people who just had a rough time in the recession because of the 2008 crash. They didn't withdraw on purpose and many of them did fit in well with their peers and believe in the social norms. It was just an economic bomb was dropped on them.

I'm talking about people who actively drop out of the mainstream culture and often see others as NPCs, people who are completely tired of playing social games and see the world as bullshit. People that have never fit in with their peers and who are so far away from mainstream culture they feel like aliens. Many people with Asperger's feel this way, especially around my generation.

I think you're right about being raised outside the norm is different than never fitting into the social world at all. For the former, joining the mainstream seems more appealing because they were sheltered from it and want company with peers. For the latter, they were forced into the mainstream and then want to with draw, for mainstream represents the society that hurt them and rejected them. Mainstream represents bland NPCs. Mainstream represents people who don't think too deeply. Mainstream represents toxic social media. Mainstream represents open offices and arbitrarily changing social norms.