In fact they're for anyone who feels they would benefit from a more relaxed atmosphere while watching a film, maybe you want to take your toddler who asks questions all the way through or you don't like it totally dark or very loud, there are lots of people that would get benefit from this.
I had never dared take Freya to a regular screening as I wasn't sure how she would behave.
The first one we went to she started off very well behaved and I felt people were looking at me wondering why we needed to be there (they probably weren't at all) I was therefore kind of relieved when she started walking right up to the front of the screen and spinning around on the spot. She then climbed across all the chairs in the front row and threw her shoes and socks off. Needless to say no one batted an eye at her.
It was such a huge weight off my shoulders, she loves films and we need to be able to take Lucas too and now we can do it in a relaxed environment.
We went to see "planes" at the weekend and as usual there were only about 5 families in the whole room.
We were adopted by a young lad who sat next to my husband and asked him questions throughout the film.
His parents tried to get him to be quiet but he wasn't bothering us, he was very sweet and funny. He was pre-occupied with thoughts of going to Disney and even recited the advert about Disney being a magical place where all your dreams came true!
My husband gets sick of me going on about going back to Disney and has come up with the theory that maybe all autistic people love Disney as we all live in a self absorbed unrealistic world?! I wonder if that's true!
It was interesting to watch Freya interacting with a boy of about 8, he decided to copy her rolling on the floor and after that she followed him about sitting nearly on top of the poor boy on the stairs and copying him lying down with his feet on the steps. I wasn't sure what he thought about it as she was majorly invading his personal space but he didn't seem to notice and if he did was very tolerant of her.
She never sits and watches the whole film but I know if we tried to leave early she would do her nut, she seems to still be listening and taking it in as she's dashing about the place.
We nearly had an incident on leaving as I had told her next time we would watch the film with a snail and she obviously thought it was straight after as she said "now watch snail", fortunately there was a model of the snail in the foyer and she was content to sit on this.
I don't think these screenings are advertised well enough as you can't buy the tickets until the Wednesday before the showing, they are not advertised at the cinema or on their websites until that Wednesday.
If anyone would like to find out more you can look on autism Bedfordshire which has the link to dimensions who run the screenings all over the UK at 3 different cinema chains. It would be awful if they stopped showing them due to lack of numbers so don't be put off, go along and give them a go :)
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