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haven't been to the cinema for 14 years

yellow sunflower

Hi, 

I haven't been to the cinema for a very long time,due to all sorts of reasons. I feel like society expects you to go and feel a bit pressured into going. Do loads of people go,or is it just my imagination and I'm making myself go,just to follow the crowd? I would only ever go by myself-less pressure and only ever mid week-less people! Problem is,I haven't been for so long, can you leave halfway through if you get anxious? I remember in America,years ago,a cinema was bombed...is that likely to happen again?

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    I eventually worked out why going to the cinema doesn't do much for me. I struggle with lots of films where I basically can't distinguish one character from another. It seems there is a recognised thing called prosopagnosia which is an inability to recognise faces. I enjoy films where there is a small number of characters but get bored and fall asleep in things like lord of the rings where there are loads of similar looking people doing rather similar things.

    If you pick a seat by the aisle where you can get up and leave without disturbing anyone then no-one will object to you leaving halfway through.

    I don't think you are more likely to get bombed in a cinema than anywhere else. You are more likely to win a million on the lottery than getting bombed anywhere in Britain. The lottery is so unlikely that I don't bother with it anymore. Getting bombed is a thing that is much less likely than that so it doesn't enter my mind when deciding what to to do. This is a situation where it helps to talk to people and see what normal people do and worry about. We tend to get isolated with ASD and we often seem to lose the sense of what is ordinary and normal because it is harder to make comparisons with people around us. Ask yourself whether anyone you know has ever been affected by a bombing and you will have to go through a fair number of connections before you get anywhere near a victim of 7/7 or the Brighton bombing (1970's). It is so rare that it is not worth worrying about.

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    I eventually worked out why going to the cinema doesn't do much for me. I struggle with lots of films where I basically can't distinguish one character from another. It seems there is a recognised thing called prosopagnosia which is an inability to recognise faces. I enjoy films where there is a small number of characters but get bored and fall asleep in things like lord of the rings where there are loads of similar looking people doing rather similar things.

    If you pick a seat by the aisle where you can get up and leave without disturbing anyone then no-one will object to you leaving halfway through.

    I don't think you are more likely to get bombed in a cinema than anywhere else. You are more likely to win a million on the lottery than getting bombed anywhere in Britain. The lottery is so unlikely that I don't bother with it anymore. Getting bombed is a thing that is much less likely than that so it doesn't enter my mind when deciding what to to do. This is a situation where it helps to talk to people and see what normal people do and worry about. We tend to get isolated with ASD and we often seem to lose the sense of what is ordinary and normal because it is harder to make comparisons with people around us. Ask yourself whether anyone you know has ever been affected by a bombing and you will have to go through a fair number of connections before you get anywhere near a victim of 7/7 or the Brighton bombing (1970's). It is so rare that it is not worth worrying about.

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