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There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation (fedia.io)
submitted 1 day ago by classic@fedia.io to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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People who haven't really resumed socializing at levels they used to, people who lost the capacity to regulate during interpersonal interactions, people who lost trust in others... I encounter lots of partial returners out there

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[–] zagaberoo@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hikikomori

[–] classic@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe if we smushed the two together and made up a word? Like hikicovidomori

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago

I think the term is hikikomori, and the cause is COVID isolation.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe there is a German word for it. Or that could make one up

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