Wheelchair Fakers

[Stduck]

I've decided that if I need to be in a wheel chair for a short period of time I'll skip the Disneyland trip.

Don't do that! Use the opportunity to rent an ECV and exact your revenge on all the stroller nazis!

Oh I get my revenge when I move their strollers and they get made at me. (Though running them over with pole carts is a close second)

[1team1dream]

Part of my disability is the inability to walk far distances, therefore when I come in the park I do get a wheel chair. I'm sure I receive plenty of looks when I stand up to either get my wallet or walk onto a ride. Believe me, I would much rather trade places with a normal person any day. I use to love to walk. I never make any assumptions and always ask, not demand, to find out if there is a handicap accessible line or not. It saddens me that there are people out there that do fake it and ruin things for those of us who do need to be in chairs and receive attitudes from both guests and some cast members. :mad:

[SpamPutney]

About 3 years ago I visited WDW, a month after having surgery on my knee. I was basically healed, but still experienced tremendous pain after walking for extended periods of time. Our first day at WDW, I rented a wheelchair, and received so many dirty looks that I refused to rent one for the rest of the trip. The only exception was at Epcot, where I used one for half a day to get through the World Showcase. As a result, I wasn't able to be as mobile as I had hoped to be, and I had to limit my enjoyment of the parks.

I was in my early 20s, and looked perfectly fit. Just because you see me standing and walking short distances doesn't mean I don't have a disability, temporary or otherwise.

[Stduck]

Yes!!! We love people like you. You know you have limited mobility even though you look fit. But you are the people that come up the front at mansion in a wheelchair and when we go through our thing about the possibilty of walking you guys all stand up and walk in.

Its the people who don't need one that rent one that is what bothers me.

[BirdMom]

Its the people who don't need one that rent one that is what bothers me.

I hate those people too. It seems that these reasonably heathy people think that they are too important to spend an hour in a long line. How about not coming when it's busy. There's a thought...

Yeah - I agree with it not being obvious when someone has limited mobility. I enjoyed being pushed around in a wheelie at the mall with my broken foot, but we never did make it to the park. It would have been too much hassle with no place to stow the crutches, although the cast was obvious for all to see - all the way up to my knee.

I was in just as much, if not more pain after a car wreck the same year I quit. Although my right hand/wrist was in a hard cast, my hip, back and leg injuries weren't so obvious. I could only walk about 20 to 50 feet at a time before the pain became so excrutiating that I had to sit down. Yet I looked to be mid-20's, with scuffed up shoes like everyone else, and perfectly healthy. I wasn't. I was in pain for months, to the point where I'd forgotten what it felt like to be normal, and I was in no mood to go to the park. Several months after my accident, I was in one of my park friend's weddings. She had just had knee surgery about 6 weeks beforehand, and her fiance's mother insisted on having the wedding at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange. When you don't feel so hot, it seems like the world's longest aisle, but we made it - gimpy and gimpier. We both could have used wheelies that day.

[lady ulrike]

What really get me with the fakers is when they're obvious about it and probably don't even think about it. When they do something like switch who gets in the wheelchair after they get off the ride or my absolute favorite when someone, usually a teenager, is limping to get on the ride and then gets off and either forgets to limp or limps with the other foot.

[GMC]

i didn't even bother faking it, but i was wheeling myself around, not somebody else pushing me, so i felt like i desvered the whole three rides i had the energy to sneak up the exit for, then i was just too tired and left.

[SoarWhoreCoCo]

Let's not forget the HEALING Powers of attractions...ever have a show exit and someone not take te wheelchair with them, and not come back for it!

IT'S A MIRACLE, WE HEALED ANOTHER! :D:

[Seussgirl]

I working at Fish and was at the controls when this woman walks over behind in the middle of a cycle and tells me her and her child get to ride next because she has a sprained ankle. Well, I was about to turn her down and tell her no and make her stand in line with the rest of the guests, but when I did she waved a GAP Express in my face. I was so in shock that she actually got one for that, but let her in the next cycle since it hadn't been grouped yet, and there was noone in the express line. This woman had no trouble walking and climbed in the fish with no trouble. Later that day, I was working at the Caroseussel when she came back around and got on and climbed right on one of the animals with no problem. Jeez, I would have loved to have a word with the guest service person that issued that GAP.

[Parkbench]

I was in my early 20s, and looked perfectly fit. Just because you see me standing and walking short distances doesn't mean I don't have a disability, temporary or otherwise.

Yeah... I had a similar problem, but I was a teenager. Thankfully I was with my parents, not friends so it looked a little more like something actually had happened... I had broken 3 of my toes, so it was extremely painful for me to walk around, not to mention that my foot swelled like mad when I would stand for long periods of time. I attempted Jungle Cruise waiting in normal lines and walking through, I had to skip the next two rides while my family went on them to get the pain down before I decided I should probably use the wheel chair...

I hate when people fake it and make people like me who have had to use it but look healthy seem to be faking also...