Hey, I'm a fellow *kranian in a similar same situation as you.
Finished school 11 years ago, now 26, and coming up on 11 years of living as a shut-in.
I was doing ok for a while, but not so much anymore.
Living by myself ever since mom kicked the bucket 2 years ago.
Got a pretty bleak future ahead all-in-all.
I was living vicariously through making games and daydreaming about being creative, but I had to give that up, and now make vidya slop for others online.
Trying to save up a lot of money in hopes life will not feel so bad in the future and I'll be able to go out at some point again and then mostly retire.
Living under fascism is one of the brutal things about all this, I'm super afraid of going outside and order all my groceries online.
This country and our system is absolute torture for people that don't fit in.
Everything here was pretty much designed and built to break people like us.
All the schools, jobs, the psychiatric system, and social norms - we pay the insane toll of suffering for the cheap cost of living.
There's no surprises that we're completely broken people, that's simply the ukrainian system to crush people working as intended.
And while we're too afraid to go outside to get sent to march to death against Russia for nothing, succs in our age-group either move abroad or are having the time of their life here.
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