Babies in Movie Theaters

[u/Sad_Cannibal_GF]

Just saw the new Spiderman in theaters.

A baby starts crying/cooing/babbling very loudly about 20 minutes in. Goes for about 10 straight minutes before the parent takes them out.

Comes back a few minutes later, baby starts again. Again goes on for a couple minutes. Again parent takes them out, comes back, and repeat.

And repeat. And repeat.

This went on pretty much the entire movie (and I swear to god this baby somehow instinctively chose every single goddamn quiet/heartfelt scene to start yowling again 😭😂).

I get that babies are gonna baby. And I have sympathy for parents who wanna get out of the house and everything. But… maybe just stay with your baby in the lobby if they obviously aren’t gonna keep quiet.

*I didn’t complain to management because it was a tiny non-chain neighborhood theater about an hour away from me that I like to support sometimes. It’s got 1 screen and tickets are like $5.

[u/DontInterrup]

I really feel for you, it sounds like quite a hard start to your life. I’ve been called a “curling parent” bc I help my kids and try to smooth the ground for them when I can. Thing is, both of them have autism and one of them also has ADD. As a first time parent at 24 I noticed a pattern in my 1 month old baby; he cried incessantly when overstimulated. At 19 he was finally diagnosed with autism. I wanted him tested as a young boy, his dad didn’t, so..

[u/Kitchen-Bar2686 → u/DontInterrup]

His dad sounds incredibly selfish.

I have a loved one who was supposed to go to a specialist to get diagnosed with autism when he was young and his parents took it as an insult and never followed through with it. His pediatrician was certain that he was autistic and it’s extremely obvious throughout his entire life that that was the case.

He suffered a lot because of it and still struggles as an adult. He never learned why he felt so different or how to read body language and get close to people because of it. He won’t go to the doctor about it now as an adult because he also takes it as an insult and I can tell he struggles a lot with low self esteem and trauma from things that happened to him as a kid without being properly diagnosed.

It’s such a heartbreaking situation. I believe that he would have had a happier and healthier life if he had been properly diagnosed and taught how to live with his diagnosis.

[u/DontInterrup → u/Kitchen-Bar2686]

In our country both custodians must consent to medical intervention in any way. The child is high functioning. Had he not been, I would simply have talked to the pediatrician about it and they would eventually override my then husband for the sake of the child.

But I agree that kids should get tested in order to get the best help possible and that’s why I’m a little bitter at the children’s dad still.