My wife and I had an opportunity to finally see the new Batman film, which is fairly great. During the film someone near the front of the theater was exclaiming remarks. It sounded like a high school kid and my wife and I made some comments to each other about the interruptions. I was not distracted, nor did it bother me terribly, but I still got strange thoughts of throwing food or drinks and maybe shouting out to "BE QUIET!" I was a little confused about this as I had not really been bothered and of course did not do anything of the sort.
Once the movie was over we walked in front of the girl making the noise. "There is the noisy girl." I pointed out to my wife as we turned the corner. It turned out to be a down-syndrome teenager who was really excited about being in the theater.
In retrospect, I do not know why I had thoughts of throwing or shouting, but I have a theory: maybe I was in some way "feeling" peoples' reactions in the audience and "picking up" from them their fantasies about what they wanted to do about the situation.
The lesson I took from this experience is that jumping to conclusions and judging someone before you have all the facts is the improper reaction to most situations. There may be a reason why behavior is less than optimum and assuming someone is being malicious may be incorrect. In the future when someone is misbehaving I am not going to assume that they are a "bad" person. There is most likely a reason why and they should not be judged too quickly based on their behavior. They may even need help or guidance which one should be more than willing to give.
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