tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post4656539153105721574..comments2015-05-24T10:58:57.529-06:00Comments on Thinking Sticks: Playing with Ideas: Drapetomania, School Refusal and HikikomoriSandra Doddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-68777740787688437582009-04-20T19:39:00.000-06:002009-04-20T19:39:00.000-06:00I just got a new rss feed reader for my desktop (R...I just got a new rss feed reader for my desktop (RSSOwl.. love it) and I'm moseying through the blogs I have been following to read what I missed the first go round. <br /><br />Hikikomori. I knew that was familiar. No lie, the university textbook defined it is a psychosomatic *disease* that people in some modernizing cultures contract. I remember now. There are similar "diseases" classifications I find just as strange, all listed psychosomatic.<br /><br />It's all in somebody's head apparently. Tee hee. Who's head? That's my question. :D <br /><br />Most of them seem to stem from some sort of newish (100-150 years give or take) standard that people have taken to balking at. <br /><br />I just find it entertaining in a mirthless sorta way but if I keep too long at it... well I start feeling sick. Hmm.. but it may be psychosomatic. P~~~~Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951878454894964736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-17322866014486473632008-02-19T23:16:00.000-07:002008-02-19T23:16:00.000-07:00There is some discussion at Unschooling.info:AAFP ...There is some discussion at Unschooling.info:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://unschooling.info/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1530" REL="nofollow">AAFP "diagnoses" school refusal</A>Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-16550618775446860112008-02-19T15:54:00.000-07:002008-02-19T15:54:00.000-07:00http://www.shure.or.jp/english.htmlVery cool!!!"To...<A HREF="http://www.shure.or.jp/english.htm" REL="nofollow">http://www.shure.or.jp/english.html</A><BR/><BR/>Very cool!!!<BR/>"Tokyo Shure was founded in June 1985 while school-refusing children were increasing. Keiko Okuchi founded it as a space where any child can be her/himself and make with support of parents of school refusing children and other citizens. Nowadays, Tokyo Shure is known to as one of the oldest free schools."<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Talya! I hadn't known about that at all.Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-54055932268410944782008-02-19T15:36:00.000-07:002008-02-19T15:36:00.000-07:00This reminded me of this: http://www.shure.or.jp/e...This reminded me of this: http://www.shure.or.jp/english.html<BR/><BR/>Which was the context when I heard of school refusal in Japan before.<BR/><BR/>(Since this blog is all about these connections, thought I'd share :) )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-57585544872211814042008-02-16T12:36:00.000-07:002008-02-16T12:36:00.000-07:00David went to high school in Tokyo at a private sc...David went to high school in Tokyo at a private school after he refused to go back to boarding school in the UK. He says that many of the Japanese students there would probably be classified as Hikikomori now. David is fascinated by the links here and figures he probably suffered from School Refusal. Well he ran away from boarding school a lot. Spent some time with a bottle of vodka and some porn magazines in a tent in the English countryside while the police hunted him down on one of his escape attempts. Unfortunately for him his partner in crime got freaked out and called his mom on the first night out.Schuylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09801734082790893216noreply@blogger.com