Theme park queue jumping for DLP

[RichSherl]

Probably the wrong place to ask this but...

My DP wants us to employ a theme park queue jumper for when we go to Disneyland Paris in October.

I didn't even know these things existed?!?!?! 🤐

I've not been to DLP for a number of years but apparently it's a thing that people go with their disabled parents just so they can skip queues for rides and to see characters etc?

Can anyone corroborate this? It seems mad to me and beyond unethical.

Anyway, AIBU or should we really use someone like this to help us skip queues?

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

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

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

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.

Spot on.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Oh wow no way! Do you have a link?!

Actually, I found it:

https://people.com/couple-considers-using-disabled-person-skip-lines-disneyland-11724140

and also here

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/woman-says-she-conflicted-over-080000954.html

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 🙄