How Do We Make Others Understand Our Love For Disney?

[DJ Disney Kid]

These are the same people that dont go on ANY vacations in a year, yet hate on you for your choice.

 

[Maxie86]

My boss had told me last year that until I stop blowing money at Disney I was never going to be able to do my job right telling people how to invest their $$.

You are helping my DS with his investments. He has been a Disney stockholder since he was 7 years old. Thank you.

 

[Grumpy23]

Oh yes, people make comments all the time. A previous boss of mine tried to make me feel like there was something seriously & mentally wrong with me, because DH(54)and I(46), love to go to WDW. When I told her I was getting married and that we were going there for our honeymoon, she had this awful look on her face and said DisneyWorld???? Pretty funny, especially since she has never been there! I really think she was just jealous that DH and I are so like-minded and both enjoy Disney equally. She said, you aren't one of those weird Disney freaks are you? (referring to the other people who work on our floor and are also Disney fans lol)

Also, my future DIL was discussing her upcoming honeymoon and how she wanted to go and lay on a beach all week and do nothing. I tried to get her and my DS and granddaughter to come to WDW with us and she said, you're so weird, you're like obsessed with Disney. I just smiled and said you are absolutely correct, I could think of a lot of worse things to have as an obsession.

 

[DepCor0311]

I had to give up trying. I have found that the duality in my life is overwhelming to most of my friends. I'll explain...As a "hobby" I train in mixed martial arts fighting (cage fighting...similar to what you see in the Ultimate Fighting Championship). Needless to say, its a pretty tough sport. I was explaining to the Program Director at the facility I train at, that I was going to miss a week because my DGF and I were going to WDW. There were some other students milling around the office, and the entire place came to a halt. No one could understand why a couple with no kids was going to WDW. I tried to explain and all I got was blank looks. They tried to rationalize it..."Are you going for a training class, and then going to WDW after?" ..."Are you going to watch a fight, then going to WDW after?"
I guess going to WDW is not a "tough guy" thing to do...

 

[SnwflkCts]

Good for you Figment13!!! I, too, have the Disney Magic in my blood. No one mocks me to my face but ... I get the feeling they do when I am gone just by the smirks on their faces!! And then they have the NERVE to ask me for advice and want all my maps!!!

I wish I could get my DMIL (74) interested in doing ANYTHING!! She will hardly leave the couch! She has all sorts of phobias and won't ride the metro if it goes underground ... won't go on a plane ... won't go on an elevator ... you name it, she won't do it. Well it saves me asking her to go anywhere with us. ... anyway just wanted to say I hope you have a GREAT TIME!

 

[tinkerbellmagic]

I don't bother to explain it to anyone else anymore either. They just don't get it. No one bats an eye at those who choose to throw their money away in Vegas every year, but for some reason, WDW lovers are targets. But I guess I can't knock those Vegas lovers or I would be behaving like the ones who don't understand Disney. Vacation means different things to different people, I'm just not sure why some people feel the need to put us down. But that's their problem, right? No magic and pixie dust for them! To the OP, I'd give anything to have you two fun loving folks in my family. There is a definite shortage of Disney lovers here.

Tink

 

[disneysnowflake]

People think we're weird for going to WDW so often, but they think it's normal to go to the casino every weekend and fly to Vegas or a bus trip to Atlantic City twice a year. What do they do? Gamble and mostly lose. That's okay with me though. To each his own.

My friends get together to go to the beach for 2 weeks each summer. They love to sit on the beach and read. They like renting a beach house and cooking meals, cleaning, doing laundry, etc. That's fine with me. It makes them happy. They can't wait in the Spring to choose the books they are going to read while sitting in the sand.

I'm currently trying to convince my elderly mom to go back to WDW with us. My dad won't go if my mom doesn't go. My mom said she's already seen the Magic Kingdom and has "done it all". She was there last in 1982. Yeah, it hasn't changed since 1982.

 

[daMomma]

My DH and I have had many similiar experiences with friends and family. DH went to Disney 2 years in a row with his cousin and their family couldn't believe that 2 single guys would go to Disney. After we got married we went a few times and got the same reaction from some friends and family members. Now these same people are taking their children to WDW every year. When they tell me they're going to WDW I just smile. In my head I'm thinking "ok and you thought I was crazy?" It's a really good feeling.

 

[Darian]

Disney is a very positive, up-beat, optimistic place to go. Its a place where goodness triumphs over evil, a place where being good is rewarded and being bad is punished. Where people are the best they can be. (No offense to that famous Army slogan.)

The place reeks (in a good way) of absolute truth and timeless values of right and wrong. Every Disney fanatic I've ever met loves that about things Disney. It renews and recharges them in almost a spiritual way. Its a place that strips away some of the crazyness of our normal lives and allows us to live... temporarily... in a better place. Where people are nicer and more friendly... for the most part.

Some people, as it is written in the Gospel of John, "prefer the darkness to the light" and love evil and hate what is good. For these sad folks, WDW is an intensely uncomfortable place to be, as it reminds them of everything they despise, everything they are not. Please understand I am NOT saying you need to be religious to enjoy Disney. Thats just not the case in my opinion. All you have to do is prefer to be nice rather than to be mean.

Its really pointless to try to convice those who hate WDW to like the place. Unless they have a change of heart about the rest of their lives first.

PS my brother hates WDW... especially Epcot because the "countries" are so fake. Yeah, whats the point in visiting Mexico if you can't get dysentary. Or visit Paris and not be hit on by prostitutes. Or go to Italy and smell the sewage and get in fist fights with emotional Italian men. My brother didn't like New Orleans Square at Disneyland because it didn't have all the pick-pockets, prostitutes, the stench of rotting garbage and flies. I'll take the Disney version thank you very much.

 

[eblack0409]

We get the same thing from family members.....we have given up trying to get them to understand....we just simply say, go and find out!

Our upcoming trip in September makes 3 trips in the past 12 months.....we are Disney addicts!!!!!

 

[Melwood23]

I get the same reactions for both my WDW trips and my Vegas trips (though I do take more LV trips per/year than I do WDW (typically every other year).

All I can say is it's a WDW(Vegas)thing...they just wouldn't understand

 

[sjms71]

This was posted a few weeks ago. This article describes this situation perfectly. My DH copied it and just hands it to anyone who says, "you're going to disney again!"

This article is a must read!
www.wdwinfo.com/MouseMatters/mousematters2.htm