This study aims to analyze the process when a child with autism spectrum disorder comes to do “the alternative exchange”. For that, we paid attention to “looking-blowing” in the soap bubbles play scene with one pair of a child with autism spectrum disorder and his mother. As a result, we described that he came to do “the alternative exchange”, and it was established while being linked with self and others’ differentiation to be seen in self-assertion and refusal. On the other hand, we showed “the alternative exchange” in the child with autism spectrum disorder formed that “continuous duality” was established after “role change” was formed on base in “simultaneous duality”, unlike typically developing children. Based on this result, we examined the following three points. First of all, we considered that the mother came to feel a responsibility for the exchange with him by being established “simultaneous duality”, and a strengthened approach to let him be conscious of “who blows now or this time” so that he enabled a role change. Second, we discovered that the experience with his mother was an opportunity to recognize self and the other as the act’s main constituent. Finally, we investigated that he enlarged “continuous duality”.
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