The BFI released a statement saying it was sorry and had got it wrong in a “challenging and complex situation”.
Harris said the NAS would be reaching out to the BFI to discuss ways to improve its staff’s understanding of autism.
The British Film Institute has apologised after staff forcibly removed a woman with Asperger’s from the cinema in what onlookers described as a “disgusting” sign of “naked intolerance”.
Another man, who called her a bitch [for laughing] was thrown out but only after she was.”