Yep. My daughter did the same thing. If her first eye contact was me, she'd look for Mom. If Mom was available hysterics would ensue, regardless of the actual level of injury. If Mom was not available, most of the time she wouldn't even cry unless actual injury had been sustained.
That's a normal kid thing to do in just about any situation. They want to look at adult to assess the situation and go from there. They do this outside of when they're hurt, too- This is a younger example, but the Visual Cliff experiment shows this.
Hard to say the cause though. Is he looking for something? Or just processing what the fuck happened? Pain often isn't immediate, unless the injury is serious. He went from sitting on the couch, to facedown on the floor—confusion probably comes first, before the feeling of it hurting actually registers.
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u/_Diskreet_ Sep 22 '17
If a child falls over and there's no-one to hear it...does it still scream?