Going to the cinema alone?!

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I do it all the time and have never had a problem. I generally go at off-peak times so that I don't have anyone sitting directly next to, in front of, or behind me. I sometimes get a little self conscious when the lights are still on but once the lights dim and the movie starts I get very relaxed and am able to enjoy myself.

If I could just figure out how to get the salt levels right on the popcorn I'd be in heaven!

If I go to cinema, concert or sth, it's 99% sure I go alone. I don't need anyone in the cinema, it's silent place. I want to see a movie, so I come, sit, watch in silence and go away. And people make me tired. I don't like to walk and laugh/eat with them before film begins, or after and talk who was the cutiest?

I'm a member of other forums, so when I go to the concert, I ALWAYS meet sb from fanclub forum. I pretend to be normal, but sometimes I'm totally silent and out. I remember one fanclub meeting when I became Non Verbal Autie and people were a little afraid. It was my first meeting, so I was stressed and I seemed insane to them, I'm pretty sure.

I go to the theaters alone, and I never get "bad looks" for it. I don't see why going out to the movies has to be exclusively to be only a group activity. You can enjoy a movie by yourself, you don't need someone else to enjoy it with.

I do it all the time, and I have fun.

I perfer to go alone and.....
out 2 eat
bars
woods
concerts
shopping
shows,ect
I'll make big elaborte dinners and my brother,and other people say it's sad to do those things alone.
but they have stories about how there night sucked because so and so wanted 2 do something else and there is a big fight and noone has fun......and that is when I leave with out telling them(if you say your leaving to your friends they alllllllllllways try to talk you out of it)
people say it's sad but think about it they won't go any where alone,some of my friends won't go in to a bar or other places alone, that seems wierd 2 me they are too scared to do it so that is an n/t anxity?

I do it if there's a movie that I like, but nobody else does.

I LOVE watching movies alone. It's slightly weird, but not weird enough that you should be stopped. I don't think it's sad at all. I've been dying to see a movie in a cinema alone some time. Then I don't have to hear the nasty eating noises.
I've had lunch out alone, several times. I felt slightly awkward, because I know people might be thinking that's strange. But I enjoyed it for the most part.

I don't go alone and I don't go with people. I cannot stand going to the movie theater's, especially since the non-crappy one is attached to the mall.

I do go to the mall alone (most of the time, I love doing so), but I rarely go to the cinema alone. I do so mostly with family and friends.

I go many places alone most of the time, and I am an 18 year old female. Not only is it considered weird, but in some areas it can be dangerous. I avoid walking around ratty cities by myself and usually just stay in the safer suburban areas. Sometimes I feel self-conscious about shopping around the mall alone, because that is where all the preppy girls likes to go. But nobody has ever actually came in front of me and called me a "loser" for that, and if they thought that, I'll just think the same of them.

It's interesting to see how many of you also go alone most of the time. I thought it was just me..
I use to go every week in the cinema, since 10 years ago ALWAYS alone. To be honesty I'd prefer someone with me, but have no choice.
In fact, I do almost everything alone.

I have gone to movies alone, many times. When my daughter was a pre-schooler,I used to take her to a local one dollar cinema, in the middle of a week day. If you were lucky, there wouldn't be above three other people in the theater. Other times, I went to see movies alone, but always during the day. I enjoyed them just as much as I would have if someone had gone with me. I am not dependent upon others to have a good time. I have also dined alone. I once went to a fancy restaurant with my infant. I asked for a booth, and ordered a fine meal. She slept the whole time, and when done, I took a taxi home. If people thought I was weird, I didn't notice.

It amazes me that society thinks there is something wrong with viewing movies or dining alone. A former friend annoyed me greatly, when Avatar came out. My new boyfriend had taken me to see it, and we enjoyed it immensely. Later, she called to say that she was jealous because her brother and his wife had gone to see it, and her daughter had been taken to see it, and now myself. She wanted me to go again, with her, just because she didn't want to go alone! Besides it being a very expensive movie (they were charging more because of the 3-D) why on earth would I want to pay to see the same thing again 2 days afterward, just because she didn't want to go alone?

I go to the cinema alone all the time, I prefer it. I experience panick attacks when a cinema contains more than arouns a dozen people, there are usually few people there to mock me.

I doubt in the case of a film as popular as this that you will be able to find a showing at which you are the only audience member.

I never thought it was odd, I've met many NTs who go the cinema alone. Then again they were film enthusiasts so...

That said I much prefer going with friends, so I have some people I can talk to about the film straight after it's over when it's freshest in my memory.

Wow, this is an old thread! Oh well!

I've been to one movie only by myself. Pink Floyd's, The Wall. I went alone by choice because I wanted to be able to watch and listen totally undisturbed by friends yakking and making constant commentaries. I wanted to absorb and interpret it on my own.

Well that worked out real well because a bunch of drunken morons decided to sit right behind me and do what my friends at the time would do, TEN TIMES WORSE!

Go figure....