Theme park queue jumping for DLP

Oh good glad people are fully horrified everywhere by this idea.

Hopefully they’ll clamp down on this sort of thing. Although from what I’ve heard all it’s done is make it harder for genuinely disabled people.

More bravos to you OP 🙄

OP not sure if you’ve seen but a news outlet have picked this up now, it popped up on my Facebook the other day!

Your husbands sounds like an a$$ for even thinking of doig thisYou don't skip the line, you get a return time that's approximately the current line time. And, like several people have said the pass is for the disabled person and 3 others. Also, people doing this caused Disney World to revamp the entire disabled process as people were abusing the system just like this.

I’m a wheelchair user and sometimes the perception is that someone in a wheelchair takes priority over other disabilities. As you’ve so succinctly pointed out, that’s not always true. To illustrate, if I go to the supermarket I need to park in a wide disabled space but I will always choose the one furthest from the entrance and leave the nearer ones free for those who may have a walking impairment or other disability. I’m in a self propelled chair so it doesn’t matter where I park as long as the space is wide enough for access.

Do the dumb fucks who say it’s a perk or a benefit not get that we would swap in a heartbeat?! I would wait in a line for the rest of my life if it meant my child would speak, or ever be able to do anything independently. I would do anything just to hear him say “I love you.”, or to know for sure he understands just how much I love him, There is NO amount of “queue jumping” that makes up for having a profoundly disabled child. It’s not a fucking perk. It’s an adaptation to make things that you take for granted because you and your children are able to do them every day that would otherwise be impossible for us just a tiny bit more acceptable.

Spot on.

It’s not a fucking benefit, soft or otherwise !! You just don’t get it do you ? There is no upside to being disabled. There are no ‘perks’ as you so charmingly put it. All there is is the compassion and empathy of a decent society who recognise that a disabled life is a difficult one and try to put as many concessions in place to make things as easy as possible. And then there are people like you, who think nothing of using a disabled person for your own gain to utilise something to which you are not entitled, the stealing of which makes it infinitely more difficult for genuinely disabled people to secure. And yes, I said stealing. Because that’s what it is.

And nobody here is cringing or hiding under a rock. You are being called out for what you are. A thief.

Perfectly put. Couldn’t have said it better myself !!

And yet still standing. So not that abusive after all.

Exactly. It’s yet another case of if you can’t see the disability then it doesn’t exist.

How do you know they were queue jumpers and didn't have additional needs or a disability

Not always, sometimes people in wheelchairs get priority and the people who can't go in small/dark/crowded/loud places get stuck in to join the main queue where the fasttrack people join and have to go through the ride building (pirates at DLP, Thirteen at AT, Spiderman at DLP, ect)

What the actual fuck did I just read?! This is DISGUSTING. My DS is profoundly disabled. All this means is that people who don’t need the accommodation of a priority pass will be in the priority line making them twice as long for people with genuine disabilities who can’t access Disney without it.

If this is genuine, your DH is a terrible person.

No, it’s really not. And l think you know that. Would you really rock up to a person with no legs and suggest that the resulting issue of a blue disabled parking badge is a ‘perk’ of losing their legs ? Would you not think that the person would rather have two good legs and not need the badge ? It’s not a perk - a perk is an advantage as a result of something. There is no advantage to disability, and there is no concession that makes up for the disability itself. So no. Not factual at all. Totally incorrect in fact.

But it's factual!

My posts upthread indicated exactly what l thought of anyone who exploits disability concessions for financial gain, as well as those who use their services. You simply don’t seem to grasp that the concessions and adjustments available to disabled people are not ‘perks’ and it’ s crass and offensive to refer to them as such. It’s akin to a man who has lost both legs being told not to worry because now he can park his car wherever he likes !! These concessions are offered in recognition of the fact that disability puts the person at a disadvantage from the start. The concession merely redresses the balance. It’s not rocket science and the fact that your post was deleted should surely reinforce the fact that your language was ableist.

I still don't really understand why you're troubled about someone describing a queue jump as being a perk when you don't seem half as bothered about a man that's literally exploiting it for his own gain?

Are you for real??

PERKS?!

I'd much rather have the perk of being able bodied. These are not fucking perks, they're to make a shit life a little less shit.

Fuck me.

Being given access when you have access needs due to disability is not a fucking ‘perk’

holy fuck, how ignorant can a person be

Yes it's really such a perk going somewhere and not being able to access half of it.

I had this on Saturday. Entitled to a concession ticket. But can't access a lot of the venue. I'd rather pay the standard price and be able to actually enjoy the whole thing

I’ve reported this comment. Can you really not see how utterly offensive is the notion that disability attracts ‘perks’ ? Those ‘perks’ are actually reasonable adjustments offered by a society compassionate and empathetic enough to understand how difficult it is to negotiate life with a disability, and to want to help mitigate that difficulty however and wherever possible. You should try ‘simply being disabled’. I can assure you that it puts you at a disadvantage in life that no ‘perk’ could ever make up for.

It’s not semantics though is it ? Ask anyone with lived experience of disability and they will tell you. As some have here.

It’s not semantics though.

You clearly can’t conceive of what disability actually means and how it affects people’s lives.

If someone with direct lived experience is telling you that you’re wrong, you should really back down.