RE: LeoThread 2025-08-06 13:10

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Julia is a writer too, so I'll let her explain it (in French). She wrote a book about growing up as an autistic girl (and a lesbian too). This was a surprise, I thought she'd be too rational to randomly move to Japan for a year.
https://lafillepassympa.com/post/autiste-a-kyoto/

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In short, she went there to find her ikigai.

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Thank god for chatGPT hahaha

I’ll have to look into that person she mentions. I haven’t really had any connection to this idea of ikigai, most Japanese people I know just say “beer is my ikigai” when I ask them about it. I don’t think the average person here has a very deep understanding of it and from their perspective westerners make a much bigger deal of it than they do BUT that doesn’t mean it’s not a deep thing.

I have the same experience with the concept of Yuenfen in China. And a bunch of Chinese friends completely get it and we talk about it a lot even though 85% of Chinese people would probably think I’m way too obsessed with the concept

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