BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. - A fun trip to the movies for a 4-year-old girl with autism and her mother turned into a traumatic experience when the mom says they were kicked out of the West Virginia theater because her daughter was singing and dancing.
“I turned, and here came a worker. He bent down, and I said, ‘We need to leave, don’t we?’ He said, ‘Well, we’ve had some complaints,’”Dani was just diagnosed with autism in May, her mother says. Cain said she had only taken the 4-year-old to the movies a couple times and wasn’t sure how she may react, so she purposefully chose the theater’s handicap seats.
Cain says they were asked to leave shortly after that. While she was refunded for the tickets, the mother says that wasn’t the point.She says Dani is nonverbal, and it was Disney movies that helped break the 4-year-old out of her shell. After the incident, Cain shared her frustrations on Facebook, and the post went viral in the local area, rallying the community behind Dani and her mother.