It bothers me to no end about how people abuse the disability system. People who consider themselves or their children disabled with ADHD, obesity etc drive me nuts. My father is an amputee and he has never ever abused these systems. Many times he will even avoid using services that are offered because he doesn't absolutely need them. It drives me crazy when I see overweight people in scooters. As I child I was diagnosed with ADHD and apparently it was pretty bad. I remember my dad telling me that this was no excuse for being rude, disrespectful or inpatient. We would go places and if I was being any of the above we would go straight back home. No yelling, no screaming. Just these are the rules and if I wanted to enjoy these activities I needed to learn to adapt. Eventually I learned. I became a huge reader and dragged my books (Harry Potter!)everywhere we went and learned to keep myself occupied. When we finally went to Disney I was 9 years old and we waited in line 2 hours to see Mickey. We could have used the
DAS line, we could have at that time even skipped the whole queue but I learned so much in those lines.
I have sympathy for people with disabilities that are self imposed through laziness (obesity) or overly protective parents that victimize their children.
On the other hand I have complete respect for parents with severely autistic/cebebral palsy etc children who are doing their best and using the trip to help these kids grow. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking that these are the majority at Disney.
(I also get many many requests each year to write "disability" letters for people's Disney trips...)