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Autism, Roleplay, and Creative Community: The Making and Reforging of Symbolic Resources

Chi Zhang by Chi Zhang
May 4, 2025
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Date: Tuesday, May 13 at 9am Pacific Daylight Time

Our Guest Speaker Elizabeth Fein will present her research on how fantasy role play can be beneficial for people on the autism spectrum. While this is the first time that we have addressed the role of creative imagination in clinical psychology, we anticipate further sessions on this topic.

Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/98564124237

Meeting ID: 985 6412 4237

Passcode: Vygotsky

The following articles and video will get us started:

Video featuring Elizabeth Fein’s research project:

Seminar Recording:

readings:

Fein E. Making meaningful worlds: role-playing subcultures and the autism spectrum. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2015 Jun;39(2):299-321. doi: 10.1007/s11013-015-9443-x. Erratum in: Cult Med Psychiatry. 2015 Jun;39(2):322. doi: 10.1007/s11013-015-9454-7. PMID: 25812848; PMCID: PMC4457285.

Zittoun, T., Duveen, G., Gillespie, A., Ivinson, G., & Psaltis, C. (2003). The use of symbolic resources in developmental transitions. Culture & psychology, 9(4), 415-448.

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lsmolucha@hotmail.com
lsmolucha@hotmail.com
6 days ago

From Francine: Fantasy identities can have a beneficial effect or be detrimental.
One of the examples was the individual who crafted an identity as a “hell hound”.
This was presented as a functional adaptation, at what point would it be dysfunctional? It seems we are not to be judgemental about an individual’s choice for role-playing (a hellhound would be as neutral as any other furry dog).

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lsmolucha@hotmail.com
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9 days ago

Just for clarification: Autism as a diagnostic category was introduced by Leo Kanner in 1943 to describe children who lacked affective contact with other people and engaged in repetitive behaviors. This is very different from “autistic thinking” as first described by Eugene Bleuler in 1907 to describe the hallucinatory delusional thinking of schizophrenics. (When Vygotsky and Piaget mention autistic thinking they are referring to Bleuler’s concept.)

Hans Asperger studies from 1944 focused on high functioning social withdrawn individuals; that in 1977 would be designated as Asperger’s Syndrome. Eventually both the DSM 4 and the ICD 9 placed Asperger’s Syndrome within the autism spectrum.

While the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is widely used for diagnosis in the USA, the rest of the world would use the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (currently ICD11).

From what I understand “Neurodiversity” is a social movement that began in the 1990’s
the term is credited to Judy Singer and Harold Blume.

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