Tasmin Parker was at a BFI cinema on London's south bank watching her favourite film The good, The bad, The ugly. Tasmin suffers from Asperger's syndrome and was "forcibly removed" for laughing to much. Already I think this is stupid because when I wen't to see the new Avengers almost everybody laughed at different moments during the film. Also some films will include humor to try and get the audience to laugh, so to be removed for laughing is awful. Especially as you've just paid money to see it aswell.
Asperger's is a form of autism and people who suffer with it may find social relationships and communicating difficult.
A lot of people in that screening walked out in a protest due to what they thought as "disgusting" behaviour from the cinema itself. The cinema itself is apologising for its behaviour and saying it must do better.
Tasmin's Parker mum (Lydia Parker) has said her daughter was flooding in tears. She also said she was disgusted and shocked at how Tasmin was humiliated.
Lloyd Shepherd said that although she laughed very loudly at amusing bits there was never anything that was inappropriate. Some other people have said:
"I was there too and found it sickening. A very unfortunate and uncomfortable situation. I would like to say that having returned later after calming down, I spoke to the manager and believe she was in a very difficult situation, still 100% not fair what happened to that lady."
"It was shocking to witness. The abuse she received for simply laughing and enjoying the film. It broke my heart to see this unfold. My son was with me, he is autistic too, we went to try &make sure she had a safe space and that staff knew how to support her. I hope she is okay x"
The cinema has also said "The BFI said it was "sincerely sorry" and would look into training staff to be more sensitive. In a statement, it added: "In what was a challenging and complex situation, we got it wrong. "We can and must do better in accommodating all the needs of our customers."
Overall, like i mentioned earlier I think that this shouldn't have happened because producers put humor in a film to make the audience laugh so to get dragged out for laughing to much is awful and even though they are saying sorry and that they handled the situation wrong they should either pay her compensation money or give her free viewings at that cinema for such a muck up.
The post included aspects of ccceo, and the story was described well. However you could have incident more information about aspergers and statistics about it
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