A Room of One's Own: Autistic Imagination as a Stage for Parasocial Interaction and Social Learning

This article examines the role and function of imagination and parasocial (fiction-based) relations among autistic individuals. In interviews, seventeen high functioning, autistic young adults describe how they frequently absorb into daydreams, fantasy literature and multiplayer online roleplaying g...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Imagination & Religion
Main Author: Visuri, Ingela (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2019]
In: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-124
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Autism / Teenagers / Imagination / Parasoziale Interaktion / Imaginary places / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Autism
B Imagination
B parasocial relations
B Religion
B Cognition
B multimodal integration
B Coping
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