I have a child with autism. Wdw presents many challenges, but is usually worth it. We have been threatened on buses by other guests, harrassed by bus drivers who did not want to deal with us, yelled at by other patrons as we patiently waited our turn but in an alternate location, yelled out by cm's, among other things.
Right before this last trip, I suffered a stroke. I am 35. I also have multiple pulminary embolisms. I have several other issues. These present even more challenges. But I promised my child we would go, and I didn't know if we would have another opportunity. I planned my hinny off to make things as easy as possible, but folks can be so rude. My ds had been waiting patiently to make paper at epcot. This family kept pushing him and dragging things out with like a thousand differnt photo poses. Each time one child would finally finish, they would scream out across the musuem for another kid or send someone for them. I finally mentioned to the cm that my son had been waiting a long time and this was very hard for him. He couldn't even watch because all the adults kept moving around and blocking his view. She started complaining about me in spanish to the other family. I also understand spanish. I called her out (I had had enough) the other family went off on me and freaked my poor child out - I mean they had like 9 kids or something...
We had a very difficult stay at all stars movies. It had reached the breaking point so I asked to see a manager, whom promtly told me - "well what do you expect - you only paid for a value hotel... (apparently blood free sheets was to much to ask for..)
Next trip, I am waiting to check in and this women shoves me over and demands a manager immediately. She was going crazy, mouthing off to her poor kids. Manger comes and she goes off because she got off at the wrong busstop and he needs to fix it! She also was very angry because rr at studios had brokedown, and what was he gfoing to do to makeup for it? She actually demanded a full refund for her trip and for him to drive her to her hotel.
He was beyond gratious. I took time to praise him for his patience and tolerance. He gave ds some stuffed animals!
Oh - I was at the grocery the other day and a women chased me down in her van - I mean pulled right up to the doors of the store to scream at me 'do you know that you parked in a handicapped parking space?" I politely said yes. She started going off. I limped in to get a
scooter. She actually followed me around the store and I ended up going to customer service because she was scaring my ds.
We were selected to ride with goofy one am and this other women, who's kids could careless about even being there it looked like, through a fit that they had been waiting for hours. She followed us and forced her kids on to the ride, screaming the whole time. her very small (1 and 3ish) children started crying. Her husband begged her to just let them get off. She kept ranting. Sh ewouldn't even let me ride behind my son. Her husband took her kids off. She stayed, harrassing poor goofy. Then she kept getting between ds when he was trying to hug and thank goofy.