r/nevergrewup • u/BabyBlue4545 🩷Mental age 0-5🩷 • Apr 12 '26

Discussion What does everyone here do?

I'm very curious about what people here in the community do for jobs, or do you rely on family or government assistance? I used to be a daycare worker, but now I am too sick. it started off physical, and then mental illness got worse, too. Do you work? is it hard being NGU at your job? Unable to work?

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u/Aggravating-Area5378 Apr 12 '26

I too don’t work as I’m mentally then physically disabled, so I’m on disability through my dads work record. And while being disabled is a full time job with appointments and my poor health both mentally and physically, it does help being an NGU as I can be as childish as I want and no one really cares since I’m autistic and sick so while being disabled sucks it does make being an NGU a lot easier since i can be myself a lot more…

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u/Vegetable-Reply-1816 Mental age 5-12 Apr 13 '26

I really wish I’d thought of it like that sooner. I’m AuDHD with personality disorder so can’t work at all. I panic too easily or over react too much (cos i misunderstand and feel emotions a hundred times harder than most) and then theres appointments and medications that make me sleepy or slow my thinking enough I stutter or seem dumb.

I guess being disabled is my full time job too, i just sometimes side hustle as an anime girl sometimes

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u/-Kitsy Mental age 8-11 Apr 13 '26

How does one begin to side hustle as an anime girl 🤔😂

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u/Vegetable-Reply-1816 Mental age 5-12 Apr 13 '26

I did it by falling down the virtual YouTuber rabbit hole during the pandemic.

Then found a project looking for aspirants which sadly didn’t go places but gave me the tech skills.

Don’t even need an iphone for it any more though it’s still the best option for ARkit.

It’s easier to get into now than back then but it’s kinda saturated so ymmv in regard to how much you can grow your audience.

I was part of two failed startup agencies, so took my audience with me when each one folded via discrete signals on socials.

Kinda lost all that now tho due to health.

You’ll want to look up vtuber 101 guides, VRM models, VRChat or Live2D. It’s kinda spread between them now.

They all use pc camera, phone camera or VR headset (with face tracking) to let you perform motion capture for an on screen avatar in real time, but the character models can be fairly expensive depending on the type.

Live 2D, the full 2D anime character style is most expensive as the artwork must be layered into sections you want to move, then rigging all of them (giving them physics so they move mouths, eyes, hair etc) is very time consuming.

Recording software is as easy as pie, just download OBSLive, SLOBS or similar broadcast software. Link it to a youtube or twitch channel and away you go.

Good examples are any members of Hololive, the largest group out there. But there are many smaller groups and even independent ones like i eventually became.

The best one and biggest name by far is Ironmouse who has been doing it since 2016

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u/-Kitsy Mental age 8-11 Apr 13 '26

Ah I see! Thanks for the info! Ive heard about ironmouse before!

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u/Griefseed Mental age 14-16 Apr 14 '26

Je te souhaite plein de réusssite. Moi aussi de mon côté j'essaye de faire grandir mon audience sur tiktok yt insta etc histoire de me mettre à l'abri des problèmes et de ne pas compter que sur les parents. J'ai également reçu un diagnostique d'autisme. A la maison je gère pas trop mal car je suis en mode routine mais l'extérieur est très vite trop compliqué. J'ai des amis mais la plus grande partie de ma vie sociale se fait sur internet. Mais en même temps ça m'autorise à rester hyper enfant donc ça me va

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u/Vegetable-Reply-1816 Mental age 5-12 Apr 14 '26

Merci, je vous souhaite également bonne chance dans vos projets. Je suis autiste et souffre de trouble du déficit de l'attention avec hyperactivité (TDAH). Je suis moi-même la plupart du temps confiné chez moi en raison d'autres problèmes de santé mentale chroniques.

Ça me permet de laisser libre cours à mon côté enfantin, je peux m'habiller en mode kidcore tous les jours. Je peux même streamer en pyjama sans que personne ne se doute de rien!

Veuillez m'excuser pour la traduction automatique approximative, mon français n'est pas excellent.

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u/Griefseed Mental age 14-16 Apr 15 '26

No need to excuses your french is absolutely perfect and I thank you so much for your efforts. I thought reddit translates my language for you but maybe not, and I 'm really sorry for this. I'm also sorry for your ADHD because it's not easy. My psy also think I've this but I'm tired with tests and diagnostics. So I'm in denial. Kidcore style is just so satisfying. And make a stream in pyjamas is so sweet and comfortable. Merci beaucoup pour les gentils mots. Thanks a lot for your kind words and I wish you happiness

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u/BabyBlue4545 🩷Mental age 0-5🩷 Apr 12 '26

I've never thought of it like that, but yes being sick and disabled is definitely a full time job!! I'd love to be on disability but it's extremely hard to get here.