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[Mama Who]

Our two disabled daughters are both adopted (very obvious in person) and the question we get the MOST (and in front of the girls, mind you) is, "Did you know they were like that when you adopted them?" I mean, what do you say? What I really want to say is probably not allowed on this forum, but what I do say is "Yes."

"What? Asian? (or black or white or redhaired whatever the obvious difference is) No, it was a total shock a couple months in when we found out!"

or

"Like what?" [blank stare]

 

[leebee]

My sister (now 45) has CP, uses her crutches around the house and at work, but when she's out and about in crowds, she needs her wheelchair; balance isn't her thing! Anyhow, we went to Fantasmic, where the wheelchair seating is along the top row of seats. She pulled into the opening for the wheelchair, we sat on the benches on either side of her, and all was well. It was a pretty busy night, and Fantasmic ended up with standing room only. About half-way through the show, someone let their 5 year old stand on the handles of my sister's wheelchair! I couldn't believe it... this isn't a parent just ignoring a child's behaviour, this parent CREATED the behaviour. When my sister asked the dad to take the kid down, the dad said, "Why? He isn't hurting you or anything!" My amazing BIL (because I was ready to blow) stood up and offered the kid his seat and said he'd stand behind the wheelchair. Wait... wait for it... the dad said "No, thanks, he won't be able to see as well!" THIS is when we got the CM

BTW, to add to the "unseen" need for the hc stall, I frequently use it because of my damaged, arthritic knees. I need the height of the toilet seat in the hc stall, and sometimes the handrails. The low height of "regular" toilets makes it painful and difficult, at best, to stand up. Ironically, my DSis, who IS handicapped, is only 4'9" tall and HATES that the seats in the hc stalls are usually so high... she has a terrible time with them! Go figure!!

 

[alizesmom]

Not WDW related but... DD6 recently had tracheal surgery and was moved to the PICU. On arrival she was very agitated and I climbed onto the bed to console/hold her. Due to all of the medical equipment I was head down and butt high in the air. At this point the resident entered the room and proclaimed "oh, I know who you are". Karen

 

[SueM in MN]

My sister (now 45) has CP, uses her crutches around the house and at work, but when she's out and about in crowds, she needs her wheelchair; balance isn't her thing! Anyhow, we went to Fantasmic, where the wheelchair seating is along the top row of seats. She pulled into the opening for the wheelchair, we sat on the benches on either side of her, and all was well. It was a pretty busy night, and Fantasmic ended up with standing room only. About half-way through the show, someone let their 5 year old stand on the handles of my sister's wheelchair! I couldn't believe it... this isn't a parent just ignoring a child's behaviour, this parent CREATED the behaviour. When my sister asked the dad to take the kid down, the dad said, "Why? He isn't hurting you or anything!" My amazing BIL (because I was ready to blow) stood up and offered the kid his seat and said he'd stand behind the wheelchair. Wait... wait for it... the dad said "No, thanks, he won't be able to see as well!" THIS is when we got the CM

BTW, to add to the "unseen" need for the hc stall, I frequently use it because of my damaged, arthritic knees. I need the height of the toilet seat in the hc stall, and sometimes the handrails. The low height of "regular" toilets makes it painful and difficult, at best, to stand up. Ironically, my DSis, who IS handicapped, is only 4'9" tall and HATES that the seats in the hc stalls are usually so high... she has a terrible time with them! Go figure!!

Same thing happened to us at Fantasmic.
Someone lifted their child and let the child stand on DD’s wheelchair headrest. They acted like we were being totally unreasonable when we told him to remove the child.

And, my DD is only 5 feet tall, so the toilets in the handicapped stalls are pretty high for her also.

Not WDW related but... DD6 recently had tracheal surgery and was moved to the PICU. On arrival she was very agitated and I climbed onto the bed to console/hold her. Due to all of the medical equipment I was head down and butt high in the air. At this point the resident entered the room and proclaimed "oh, I know who you are". Karen

LOL!

 

[LockShockBarrel]

I don't know how some of you guys do it... I can seriously only take people up to a certain point before "SUPERBIT.." well I'm sure you can fill in the rest, comes out. No way I'd be able to hold it back if someone put their kid on my (ficticious) wheelchair. I'd probably just grab something of their's and when they told me not to, I'd say "Well why not? I'm not hurting it am I?" Yes I know it'd probably cause more problems but jeez...

 

[Friend of a Mouse]

I have a couple.

I was at the Diabetes Expo in Chicago with a friend. They did not have enough bathrooms for the crowd, which my friend thought was hysterical given one symptom is frequent urination. We were almost to the front when a very obnoxious lady on her ECV barrelled past everybody and started banging on the HC stall demanding that the person inside let her in. Aside from the fact that the line was forever, the poor person inside was an elderly lady with a cane who obviously needed the stall. This did not stop the lady from berating her in front of everyone. I came very close to making a scene.

I work at themepark in the midwest as a haunted house character. They wanted us to come up with something new and unique that had not been done before, so I jokingly suggested that I could be the "blind" vampire since I have access to canes as part of my job. They loved it (and I found out that the canes make fun noises when you hit the metal props with them- scaring the bejeebers out of the guests.) I guess I did a pretty good job with it because even some of my own housemates thought I was blind. I thought it was amazing the number of idiot teenagers that would yell out, "are you blind?!" I guess people just aren't used to seeing white canes. One time when I was walking to the bathroom with a girl from the house, she yelled back "I'm not! Are you?!" I couldn't figure out why she was so offended until I realized she thought that I really was. That was an eye opening experience of what my students must go through.

 

[mom2maggie]

Obviously not at WDW, but I can tell you how frustrating it is as a parent that so many restaurants and stores put the diaper changing table in the handicapped accessible stall. I feel bad when I come out and there is someone who very obviously needed the stall, and couldn't get into it because I was in there changing a diaper. But what else am I supposed to do - change her on the floor?

 

[LilyWDW]

Obviously not at WDW, but I can tell you how frustrating it is as a parent that so many restaurants and stores put the diaper changing table in the handicapped accessible stall. I feel bad when I come out and there is someone who very obviously needed the stall, and couldn't get into it because I was in there changing a diaper. But what else am I supposed to do - change her on the floor?

It's simply a space issue most of the time. I really, really, REALLY try not to do so if I have enough room, but sometimes it is unavoidable. Especially if you are working with a preexisting area and thus have less flexibility.

Thought sometimes I just think the designer was being stupid....

 

[Ms_Butterfly]

Obviously not at WDW, but I can tell you how frustrating it is as a parent that so many restaurants and stores put the diaper changing table in the handicapped accessible stall. I feel bad when I come out and there is someone who very obviously needed the stall, and couldn't get into it because I was in there changing a diaper. But what else am I supposed to do - change her on the floor?

But, until the baby can walk, she's just like disabled children, so it is okay!

(This is referencing a story another poster told earlier in this thread, when a lady with a baby actually said that to the poster's two disabled daughters. )

 

[LockShockBarrel]

Well the thing with the baby changing table is a rather awkward situation. It's not the parent's fault that the changing station was put in the handicap stall, and you can't really play baby vs handicap all star battle with who should have first crack at the stall. IMHO, the parent here is really kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place because you're obviously not going to put the baby on the nasty bathroom floor, the sink counter won't really work either ... I guess that's kind of "get in and get out as fast as you can" situation. There's no other good answer, just write letters and comments and hope that they can move the changing table out of the stall.

 

[Michigan]

Well the thing with the baby changing table is a rather awkward situation. It's not the parent's fault that the changing station was put in the handicap stall, and you can't really play baby vs handicap all star battle with who should have first crack at the stall. IMHO, the parent here is really kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place because you're obviously not going to put the baby on the nasty bathroom floor, the sink counter won't really work either ... I guess that's kind of "get in and get out as fast as you can" situation. There's no other good answer, just write letters and comments and hope that they can move the changing table out of the stall.

We were the ones where the woman said that the baby was just like my girls in wheelchairs because it couldn't walk. She was in the companion bathroom not the regular bathrooms.

 

[Capt. Barbosa]

On our latest trip 99% of the people we encountered were very nice and helpful, holding doors moving to keep space open ect..
On our final day as we were leaving the Magic Kingdom we were at the Monorail platform waiting with everyone else when the CM asked a family with their jogging stroller to step back so he could put the ramp down, and then asked them to wait while we boarded, well this woman must have been upset that we boarded first because she rammed her stroller in to the back of my ankles as we were on the ramp, you know it had to be on purpose it was hard hit and she didn't even give me time to get up that short ramp.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

Michigan, I wasn't defending that woman's actions or what she said to you. I was speaking to that situation in general. I've seen bathrooms that had the changing table in the handicap stall and that's what I mean to be the awkward situation.

 

[buckirj1]

I only got through the first few pages, and had to stop reading. People's sense of entitlement and self-importance astounds me!

 

[Michigan]

Michigan, I wasn't defending that woman's actions or what she said to you. I was speaking to that situation in general. I've seen bathrooms that had the changing table in the handicap stall and that's what I mean to be the awkward situation.

I knew you weren't I just wanted to point out that she used the companion bathrooms and not the regular bathrooms.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

On our latest trip 99% of the people we encountered were very nice and helpful, holding doors moving to keep space open ect..
On our final day as we were leaving the Magic Kingdom we were at the Monorail platform waiting with everyone else when the CM asked a family with their jogging stroller to step back so he could put the ramp down, and then asked them to wait while we boarded, well this woman must have been upset that we boarded first because she rammed her stroller in to the back of my ankles as we were on the ramp, you know it had to be on purpose it was hard hit and she didn't even give me time to get up that short ramp.

I really don't get that type of behavior from people with strollers and then when you turn around to look at them after they have run over your foot or pushed you from behind it's somehow your fault that you were in there way. As for boarding the monorail or a bus with one aren't you supposed to fold it?

 

[SueM in MN]

I really don't get that type of behavior from people with strollers and then when you turn around to look at them after they have run over your foot or pushed you from behind it's somehow your fault that you were in there way. As for boarding the monorail or a bus with one aren't you supposed to fold it?

Strollers need to be folded on the bus, but can be left open and rolled onto the monorails. Sometimes, if it is very busy, people will be asked to fold their stroller on the monorail, but in general, they don't need to be folded there.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

Ok, just wanted to be sure we were cool. Oh how tone can be misconstued on the web

 

[LisaBi]

She proceeded to tell him that not only are you not allowed a HP if you aren't of legal driving age, but that children also aren't handicapped.

This one takes the cake. I guess children aren't supposed to be driven places by adults!

But seriously, there is one big arena here that does not have handicapped parking. They say they have a drive-up circle where you can drop off the HC person then go park. Um....not gonna happen. Sure, I'll leave my child alone on a downtown street while I take 20 minutes to go park. Guess single parents aren't supposed to take their children to events either.

 

[jdb in AZ]

This one takes the cake. I guess children aren't supposed to be driven places by adults!

But seriously, there is one big arena here that does not have handicapped parking. They say they have a drive-up circle where you can drop off the HC person then go park. Um....not gonna happen. Sure, I'll leave my child alone on a downtown street while I take 20 minutes to go park. Guess single parents aren't supposed to take their children to events either.

And handicapped adult patrons aren't welcome to attend unless they're escorted by a non-handicapped driver?