BBC:
Mr Brown, now 24, dropped out of college and spent the following years at home - gaming, in chat rooms and reading about politics.
He became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.
Mr Brown, from Ashton, Cornwall, says he became increasingly "eccentric" and eventually lost touch with reality.
"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.
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He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.
7 years. Not bad. Can anyone beat that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:22AM (6 children)
Statistics show that the children of single mothers are at a huge risk of childhood sexual and physic abuse due to the mother's endless string of "boyfriends".
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:30AM (5 children)
Probably true, it happened to my wife after her dad left her mom due to the mom screwing around. What's the fix?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:09AM (4 children)
Do you fuckers want a discussion or not? Assholes.
Goes to reset IP Address
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday November 11 2018, @08:01AM (3 children)
Ah, the totalitarian solution. I have a hard time accepting that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:55PM (2 children)
You just have to have somewhere to go; if you have nowhere to go and must therefore trespass on someone else's property, then you should be arrested, removed, and institutionalized until you can make arrangements for having a place to be.
You can't just shit in on my property.
(Score: 3, Touché) by dry on Monday November 12 2018, @06:22AM (1 child)
You actually say that you're not totalitarian?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:37AM
You have to have somewhere to go (e.g., a family member's care, a charity, etc.), or you're trespassing.
What do does one do with trespassers? We've tried just letting them lay about and shit all over the streets, and that's now gotten out of hand. It's unsanitary and dangerous.
What should we do? If a person will not engage in well ordered behavior voluntarily, then he must be forced into well ordered behavior until he proves to himself that well ordered behavior is good for him, and until he proves to others that he is capable of sustaining well ordered behavior according to his own decisions.
When you're a child, you live within the bounds of someone else's institutions. These people are children.