Mae Ditty: Erikson Timeline - The Fifth Stage

Mae (age 14) demonstrates exceptional skill playing a popular video game called Defense of the Ancients. She makes the decision to chase success as a global competitor for the game with HOD Gaming and establish an identity within Competitive Gaming. In Erikson's fifth stage, Identity vs Identity Confusion, the crisis is to establish a stable and secure identity where failure results in Identity Confusion. Because her mother does not permit her to travel in pursuit of her identity, she is denied the opportunity to participate in a national Local Area Net tournament and fully establish her identity as that of a competitive gamer. Therefore, she enters Foreclosure, a state of Erikson's Identity versus Identity Confusion wherein one has achieved Commitment but failed to achieve Exploration, leading to a 'foreclosure' of Identity.