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Autistic re-creation: Live action role-play as a safe and brave space for social learning
Dalarna University, School of Culture and Society, Religious Studies. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, DK.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7042-0877
2024 (English)In: Thinking Skills and Creativity, ISSN 1871-1871, E-ISSN 1878-0423, Vol. 54, article id 101622Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Live action role-play (larp) is an improvised and embodied form of storytelling that develops through co-creation. While autistic individuals generally dislike unpredictable situations and social interaction in larger groups, anecdotal reports suggest that they often are found in the larping community. Through interviews with 10 autistic, experienced adult larpers, this study investigates larp as a scene for social learning. The examination focuses on the attraction of larps; what the participants learn about social interaction through larping; and how such insights transfer to everyday life. From a cognitive point of view, larping comes through as an optimal autistic space where players feel safe enough to dare push their social boundaries, which conceivably contributes to the formation of more precise social predictions since experimentation and mistakes facilitate embodied learning. From the participants' point of view, larping improved their understanding of social nuances, which in turn increased social confidence and well-being in everyday life.

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2024. Vol. 54, article id 101622
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Autism, Larp, Social cognition, Predictive processing, Embodied cognition, Experiential learning, Imagination
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-49391DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101622ISI: 001307954100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85202934367OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-49391DiVA, id: diva2:1900320
Available from: 2024-09-23 Created: 2024-09-23 Last updated: 2025-10-09Bibliographically approved

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