What not to do at Disney?

[Daytona99]

Ok, now for my list. I didn't read every post but here are a couple I have not seen.

Don't "walk" your toddler on the tops of the tables. Gross! I don't want to eat off of a surface your kid has walked on. And OMG, on one trip I saw someone changing a diaper on top of the table.

Please, parents don't send your young children ( I vote for no one under 18-) to the buffet tables alone. Even adults do disgusting things at times, but kids almost always do. Yes, even your perfect kid.

Oh ITA - we were at Chef Mickey's last year and a little boy around 7 was 'sampling' different offerings on the buffet with the serving spoon....EWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[danagirl]

1. Don't automatically assume people are "abusing the system" when they may have endurance/stamina issues or a hidden disability. Have you ever tried to push a wheelchair or stroller across a park? It's not easy.

I am with you all the way on this one. My daughter has JRA and uses a wheelchair. 2008 was our first year at Disney and my dad went with us and pushed her chair almost the whole time (i normally push it at home and didn't really think it would be that different.) I couldn't figure out why he didn't want to go with us the next year until I had to push it around Disney...I was pooped!!! I also hate that when you go into Magic Kingdom its downhill...right after I put sunscreen on so my hands are slippery and I am scared to death that I am going to lose my grip and my poor child is going to go flying down the hill through the crowd and into the railing...and then when you leave its uphill....the last thing I want to do when I leave the park to rest because I am tired is climb that crazy hill...ugh!

 

[delaneyc52]

Lorac4disney, you said it perfectly. My daughter has PDD-NOS and people "stare" because she looks "normal" but can have (not all the time ) meltdown temper tantrums. We have lots of tools/techniques in place but life happens. If we say lets go she spirals worse into a meltdown. I have every right to use the GAC but have not chosen to do so yet. We try to balance between the FP and alternating between parents on the rides. So people out there that think its unfair live in our shoes for a week and you will know the troubles and struggles that we go through.

I'm on to this team. My son is/was ADHD/OCD and for each and every ride we had to "talk" through the entire line so I could describe the ride to him in intimate detail so he would not freak out. I also needed to keep a personal distance because crowding him in was just not a good thing. To be honest, I found most people to be patient and acceptive. But there are always those few who probably do not intend to be mean, but are just not parents or educated enough to realize that some kids could look completely normal, but have issues. Anyway...he's now 22, the love of my life, and can certainly handle himself in all these odd vacation situations. The tough times seem to make them stronger.

 

[mousebymarriage]

I agree, and they should also ban all of the high fat, cholesterol laden foods, all the sugar filled goodies, and all the alcohol from the parks as well.



//end sarcasm

O.k. forget it, I am NEVER going to Disney again!!!

 

[emmabemmainc]

Right on! Now the question is.... where to put such a thread.... my first thought was the families thread..... but I didn't want to rule out any single moms..... but now that I think of it, once you have a baby your a family.... - so.... the family thread.... yeah?

I would love a thread like that! I am a single mom, and yes, you're right--once that baby comes out of you, you've got yourself a family--whether there's a dad around or not!

 

[jkstewart1800]

I would love a thread like that! I am a single mom, and yes, you're right--once that baby comes out of you, you've got yourself a family--whether there's a dad around or not!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2465781


Here is the link to the thread!

 

[rhazz]

Breastfeeding is not offensive as long as the mother covers up that is all I'm saying. There is no need for everyone to see her breasts in public. Just as I don't want to see what kind of underwear a guy is wearing that has his pants around his knees.

The reason I haven't posted before on this board is because I perfer another site and just thought I would revisit this one. Guess I will go back to the other board where people can respect someone opinion!!!!

Good riddance Ms. Small Mindedperson!!!

 

[Truelovernr1122]

Don't pretend to need a wheelchair just to get special treatment! I can't tell you how many times I see someone sitting in a wheelchair (no cast, not an elder...healthy as a horse!) being pushed around, and hours later, I'll see the same person standing up, pushing the person who was pushing them previously. It annoys me because there are ACTUALLY people who need to be in these wheelchairs, and the people who are faking it are taking up spaces for the handicapped at shows and making a mockery of what the real purpose is. Don't use them for special treatment... so wrong!

 

[livndisney]

Don't pretend to need a wheelchair just to get special treatment! I can't tell you how many times I see someone sitting in a wheelchair (no cast, not an elder...healthy as a horse!) being pushed around, and hours later, I'll see the same person standing up, pushing the person who was pushing them previously. It annoys me because there are ACTUALLY people who need to be in these wheelchairs, and the people who are faking it are taking up spaces for the handicapped at shows and making a mockery of what the real purpose is. Don't use them for special treatment... so wrong!

May I ask how you judge who is pretending?

 

[Truelovernr1122]

May I ask how you judge who is pretending?

You can never truly tell! A friend of mine has a stamina issue, she can't go for long periods of time on her feet but you would never know by looking at her! We're talking about what not to do at Disney and my suggestion is to not pretend you need a chair when you don't!

 

[drgreene1096]

Don't judge someone that is using an ECV just because they don't look like they should be on one. I am a 35 year old woman with fibromyalgia and lupus. I have good days and I have bad days. I don't want to have bad days at WDW so I utilize an ECV. I don't know how many negative comments I have received about my using an ECV. I don't use it to get special treatment, just to get around so my 7 year old daughter can experience WDW and so that I can get to share in her joy. Just because I appear healthy doesn't mean I am!

You never know who actually needs a wheelchair/ECV and who doesn't. I need one some of the time, but not all of the time. So when I don't need it and feel like I want/can walk, the other adult who is with me will drive the ECV. What am I supposed to do, leave it at the back of the park and then walk around for an hour only to start feeling like I can't go another step and then need it? Don't be so judgemental!!

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

You never know who actually needs a wheelchair/ECV and who doesn't. I need one some of the time, but not all of the time. So when I don't need it and feel like I want/can walk, the other adult who is with me will drive the ECV. What am I supposed to do, leave it at the back of the park and then walk around for an hour only to start feeling like I can't go another step and then need it? Don't be so judgemental!!

I do agree in most cases you can't tell, but sometimes people do make it obvious.

I pushed my mom in a wheelchair (knee surgery in the near future is likely) and she rented an ECV and sometimes she would walk for short periods and she preferred to leave the ECV outside restaurants and stores. It was good for her to walk around a little as she was able, but she needed to have it nearby if her knee "clicked". However, I am sure some people thought she didn't need it.

On the other hand, I saw a mom pushing a wheelchair with two kids in it just after renting it. The two kids, sitting side by side were kicking, shoving and punching each other over a "boundary dispute" inside the wheelchair while she read her GAC. Something about that told me she had not rented it for the right reasons!

 

[skiingfast]

GAC cards are not a front of line pass. There is a site where CMs discuss how stupid people with the cards can act. I fully believe that they are regulating and we don't need to.

 

[MHSweb79]

Don't pretend to need a wheelchair just to get special treatment! I can't tell you how many times I see someone sitting in a wheelchair (no cast, not an elder...healthy as a horse!) being pushed around, and hours later, I'll see the same person standing up, pushing the person who was pushing them previously.

You may have seen my 14 year old nephew and my 79-year old dad! My nephew has a brittle-bone condition that gives him shinsplint-like pain if he does too much walking or standing. He could also get hairline fractures in his feet. Otherwise he looks like any other teenager and can walk fine under normal circumstances. My dad is just old. My poor old mother couldn't push both of them, so they took turns in the wheelchair. (Getting ECV's was just too much of a hassle for a one-day trip.)

I do think that people USED to fake the need for a wheelchair, but honestly, it's such a pain to push around, keep track of and be in the way all day for very little gain in shortening waits (if any), not to mention the cost, that I don't think that's an issue any more. I would tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Tinker Pam]

Yes, please try not to judge just by sight. My DH may appear to the naked eye to be healthy but infact he has a terminal heart condition and is unable to walk but short distances along with that he has horrible diabetic neuropathy and can not even feel his feet so please try not to judge a book by its cover.

 

[simba20]

Yes, please try not to judge just by sight. My DH may appear to the naked eye to be healthy but infact he has a terminal heart condition and is unable to walk but short distances along with that he has horrible diabetic neuropathy and can not even feel his feet so please try not to judge a book by its cover.

This was my father. He passed away from kidney failure.

But when I was in high school, he walked very slow and had a handicapped parking permit in his car. Many times when he and I went out and he parked in a handicapped spot, some people would yell at him because he didn't "appear" to have a condition, except I knew all the ins and out of his neuropathy. Later, a few months before he passed away, he purchased an ECV and a mini-van that was equipped to handle the EVC.

My brother also passed away due to diabetes and kidney failure and had the same condiiton. My brother lived the last 4 years of his life with tiny fractures in his foot (and wore a permant boot) due to diabetes.

 

[Tinker Pam]

Knock on wood so far the kidneys are ok and the docs think the heart will give out before the kidneys do. Would like to do an ECV but husbands doctor is hesitant as he went thru a bad spell last summer where he would just pass out and fall with no warning. His head looked like a road map from scars so she really doesn't want him operating any thing like that. Haven't had any spells like that in a while though so are considering getting one for upcoming trip so that I don't wear myself out like last year pushing him.

 

[simba20]

Knock on wood so far the kidneys are ok and the docs think the heart will give out before the kidneys do. Would like to do an ECV but husbands doctor is hesitant as he went thru a bad spell last summer where he would just pass out and fall with no warning. His head looked like a road map from scars so she really doesn't want him operating any thing like that. Haven't had any spells like that in a while though so are considering getting one for upcoming trip so that I don't wear myself out like last year pushing him.

I think my dad also had some kind of heart condition. A few years before he passed, he was in the hospital overnight, as he said, to have his shunt fixed for dialysis. however later my mom was cleanign off the dining room table (he used the dining room as his office and the table was always piled with junk), she found a medical report about an agioplasty (umm that thing where they go through an artery in your neck with the balloon...)

Anyway, the day he passed away, he had dialysis that morning. He was really fatigued when he came home and breathign kind of heavy. My mom and i went out that afternoon to run some errands, and my brother was the one who foudn him, on the floor, in front of the couch, between the couch and coffee tables.....the doctors said it was kidney failure, but I say heart attack or stroke.

My brother went in the hospital to have one of his toes amputated. He had been in the hospital two months prior due to kidney issues. Anyway, after his surgery he became septic and passed away in ICU. Really sad. As a diabetic, my borther did not learn anything from my dad who managed his diabetes and dialysis really well (watching liquid intake between dialysis treatments, etc). My brother felt that as long as he took his medication, he could still eat whatever he wanted. Ugh.

 

[Trinity524]

Please do not have a meltdown when your family does not want to follow all your disney advice. This is for me.

 

[simba20]

1) Please do not yell at a parent when their almost 3 year old, is acting like an almost 3 year old, and they are doing their best to control said almost 3 year old's behavior. Disney is full of kids, it may not be the place for you to vacation.

2) Please do not get mad at ME when a FastPass machine is down, and everybody ahead of me has 8,000 park tickets in hand they are trying to get FPs with and have to wait for the FP attendant to come over, fix said machine, use her pass thingy at other machines to get FPs for the people ahead of me, all while trying to fix said FP machine.

3) Don't tell me to do the obvious, when if you'd shut your mouth about the combination of 1 & 2 above, you'd see I AM DOING IT and trying to keep the line moving. And, oh, wait, do you see that there are 3 people ahead of me trying to get FPs with 8,000 park tickets in hand from a broken machine and calling for the attendant too???? Have a magical day!

Sincerly,
Me
the woman who had senarios 1, 2, & 3 happen to her on Friday at DHS while trying to get FPs for TSM.