A Mickeyfan
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 31, 2000
I went to use the alt entrance with my GAC today & was told that the regular cue was now "handicapped accessible". I have low vision and my eyes also do not adjust from light to dark like the average person's. I can't see any thing when I enter the first room prior to the stretching room. The stretching room is hard for me when alone & it's crowded. I was alone today. I tried to explain my disability to the CM, but all she kept saying was how how they changed the cue line & it was now "handicapped accessible". I politely told her it wasn't, it was wheelchair accessible & not for the visually impaired. She told me to tell the CM when I enter the line.
I walk back to the regular cue, show them my card & explain my problem. They tell me to tell the CM @ the door. I go through the line, get to the door & explain. She tells me I can skip the stretching room, but I must walk through the dark room, out the door make a left, another left & out another door! I looked @ her & told her I could NOT see in that room. I had to wait for her to finish filling up the room, then empty it out. I felt my way around the back wall & across till I got to the door. The hallway I walked through was dimly lit with
yellow lighting. I finally get to where I am supposed to be (Which was back outside again). CM, same one that I first went to, tells me to wait. She waited for the stretching room group to be released. One wheelchair family came, a party of 7 without a GAC...or at least they never showed it to her. She asks if they can transfer, mom says yes. 2 kids jump out of chair, mom,dad, aunt?,grandma & grandpa go walking in front of me. CM tells me to follow . The family can't decide who is going to sit with who CM asks them do they need to have the walkway stopped... Not once did she even tell me to "watch my step"
I am sorry this is long & I sound bitter. There are disabilities that cannot be shuffled through the wheelchair accessible cue. We aren't a one size fits all here. I am not putting anyone down, but the feeling I get from Disney is, you are only disabled if you are in a wheelchair.
My vision is getting so that I can't drive at night. I am here for 10 days, if no one is with me, I have to leave the parks by dark....let me at least enjoy myself there during the day. Again, I am NOT putting anyone down. I just want Disney to see that we are not the same and have different needs. Telling someone who is visually impaired to walk in an extremely dark room alone is like telling someone in a wheelhair, who can't walk to take the stairs
I walk back to the regular cue, show them my card & explain my problem. They tell me to tell the CM @ the door. I go through the line, get to the door & explain. She tells me I can skip the stretching room, but I must walk through the dark room, out the door make a left, another left & out another door! I looked @ her & told her I could NOT see in that room. I had to wait for her to finish filling up the room, then empty it out. I felt my way around the back wall & across till I got to the door. The hallway I walked through was dimly lit with
yellow lighting. I finally get to where I am supposed to be (Which was back outside again). CM, same one that I first went to, tells me to wait. She waited for the stretching room group to be released. One wheelchair family came, a party of 7 without a GAC...or at least they never showed it to her. She asks if they can transfer, mom says yes. 2 kids jump out of chair, mom,dad, aunt?,grandma & grandpa go walking in front of me. CM tells me to follow . The family can't decide who is going to sit with who CM asks them do they need to have the walkway stopped... Not once did she even tell me to "watch my step"
I am sorry this is long & I sound bitter. There are disabilities that cannot be shuffled through the wheelchair accessible cue. We aren't a one size fits all here. I am not putting anyone down, but the feeling I get from Disney is, you are only disabled if you are in a wheelchair.
My vision is getting so that I can't drive at night. I am here for 10 days, if no one is with me, I have to leave the parks by dark....let me at least enjoy myself there during the day. Again, I am NOT putting anyone down. I just want Disney to see that we are not the same and have different needs. Telling someone who is visually impaired to walk in an extremely dark room alone is like telling someone in a wheelhair, who can't walk to take the stairs