cinema help

[MUM2TJ]

Hi i hardly post but always read other threads,anyway my question is haveany of you been to an autism friendly screening at the cinema and if so how was it. just i tried my ds last yr at a normal screening and he wouldnt go fully in just wanted to leave so i was thinking of taking him to odeon tomorrow for thier screening, just wondering what to expect?

I haven't been to one either yet, but we do the Sat morning cinema for a £1, so if it's a disaster I don't feel like I've forked out a small fortune.

hi there

we're going to an AFS tomorrow too, local parents says it's really great, small screen, lights on, no ads, sound down, no worries about getting up and lying on the floor and you can take your own snacks (i do this anyway)

i've also been told the staff held all the other screens back until the ASF had emptied, so as not to confuse or frighten anyone

We've been to a couple recently, we were going to go tomorrow but there is an event on in town and the area will be closed to traffic so I don't think we will be able to.
Tbh we didn't try for ages because our last attempts (years ago) to take ds to the cinema had been so horrible, but were pleasantly surprised by the autism friendly screening and now we really look forward to it. Ds likes being able to have a wander if he feels like it, especially when the credits roll, he goes right up to the screen! We can take our own snacks and they don't turn the lights right down (so I can see he isn't escaping out of the fire door from my seat ) or have booming sound so it's a much less traumatic completely different experience to 'normal' cinema. Plus everyone understands so there's no tutting!

We have been and it was brilliant. It takes my DS a while to go in, but that is fine as the screen is smaller and no-one objects to us going in, then out, then in again, or sitting on the steps for a while.
My DS does tend to talk (a lot) but I can relax knowing that other people in there understand and we aren't going to be shushed at.
Lights on when you go in, noise level lower and no adverts - brilliant.
We do still take ear defenders though.
Have you got a cinema card to get you in for nothing?

we're not long back and it was great!

dimmed lights, lower sound and no need to make hushed apols for DD sitting on her chair (and DH and I) in any which way she could.

there were a couple of lads who watched the whole film from directly under the screen - they were so engrossed, it was fabulous to see no-one tutting or being embarrassed

we've taken DD to the cinema previously and the day has always ended with her in floods of tears due to overload i reckon, but today she's a lot more calm.

and what's this about free entrance?

You can get a Carers cinema pass here

hi we went today aswel and I got free entry just had to pay for ds, I was busy paying for us both when the lady asked if I had a pass I said no and that Ive never applied as I have never applied for dla but she said I didnt need to recieve dla to get one and went to get me a form, but then came back and said they had no forms left but would let me go free anyway so that was good.