Wheelchair Fakers

[leftcoaster]

as far as the fakers are concerned they may end up actually needing a wheel chair someday.

The 13th circle of hell. I think we've used 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th.

[hulkcoaster]

The joy of having a wheelchair accessible line.

Guest: I have a wheelchair pass do I enter here?
Me: We don't accept that GAP because our line is wheelchair acceable.
Guest: But I can't stand in line, I have to go to the front.
Me: You can sit in the chair while waiting in line.
Guest: Well...... (wheels away with their party of 20 they were trying to bring into Gate A)

[KidAtHeart]

While no one in my family has a disability, we did require the use of a wheelchair on our one family trip to the parks. My sister has extremely flat feet, and despite wearing really well broken in shoes, after our first day in the park, she had deep skin blisters (between the layers of skin). Needless to say, she couldn't walk more than short distances without excrutiating pain. Of course, she looked like a perfectly healthy 19 year old so we got our fair share of looks. As said by previous posters, thanks wheelchair fakers.

[ktulu]

While no one in my family has a disability, we did require the use of a wheelchair on our one family trip to the parks. My sister has extremely flat feet, and despite wearing really well broken in shoes, after our first day in the park, she had deep skin blisters (between the layers of skin). Needless to say, she couldn't walk more than short distances without excruciating pain. Of course, she looked like a perfectly healthy 19 year old so we got our fair share of looks. As said by previous posters, thanks wheelchair fakers.

How dare she do that! She should have hovered along off her feet like the rest of us!


The preceeding was meant to be humorous, if you didn't catch that, pull the stick out of your....hey, a flower!

[tinkybell]

Hi everyone I am new here and I hope I am not a SG. :p:

One thing I want to comment on is that sometimes you people can have a disability and it not show. I have an 8 yr old daughter who lives with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and some days she is great and some days she can't walk, brush her hair/teeth etc. She can start the day out perfectly normal and by then end of the day we will have to carry her.

People who abuse the wheelchairs really tick me off because it makes a CM doubt me when I say my child can't sit for too long or stand for too long. She has to stay moving, if not she will stiffen up. The one and only time we asked for GAC the CM looked at me like I had 2 heads :( . I got the feeling that she thought I was lying. Which we were not. I would gladly stand in any of the lines if I could trade my daughter having JRA and having to get shots 2 times a week, blood draws once a month, PT/OT, not to mention the immune system problems she has from the meds.

Nothing surprises me any more. A lot of people are just jerks who feel enititled to something. Pisses me off. I wish their was a way to stop this abuse.

I am sorry I made a story about this. I hate this kind of crap!! I have been a lurker for a while, I felt like it was time for me to come out of lurkerdom for while. :p:

[ktulu]

Hi everyone I am new here and I hope I am not a SG. :p:

One thing I want to comment on is that sometimes you people can have a disability and it not show. I have an 8 yr old daughter who lives with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and some days she is great and some days she can't walk, brush her hair/teeth etc. She can start the day out perfectly normal and by then end of the day we will have to carry her.

I hear ya, my wife had a friend who had a heart transplant when she was 5 or so, and she was considered disabled. She could get/use a handicap placard, but she never did because she didn't feel she needed it. If she was feeling tired and used it, she would get dirty looks from people all the time.

[tinkybell]

I hear ya, my wife had a friend who had a heart transplant when she was 5 or so, and she was considered disabled. She could get/use a handicap placard, but she never did because she didn't feel she needed it. If she was feeling tired and used it, she would get dirty looks from people all the time.

That is a shame that people with real disabilites are being made to feel this way. My daughter will never remember being normal. My other kids ( I have 6) will never remember their sister when she wasn't going to Dr. appts for blood works, PT, OT, or being sick. My kids can't even get live vaccines because of the meds my daughter is on for her Arthritis. It causes her immune system not to work properly. I hate it.
:(

[mechurchlady]

i am an active person and can waddle pretty fast at timed but at the end of the day I barely can get in the car or drive home. I take hours to do shopping and I seem normal but do not ask me to knee or get up from squatting as my knees are damaged. It is hurtful when people say you are able to do more when you are not able to do more. It is the fakers that give us truly disabled the doubt and shame given to fakers.

I no longer go to church because I was tired of being told to grow up but I cannot stand up straight or keep my chin up. For me it is cumulative and by the end of the day I am so tired and hurting I rather sleep at the computer.

[mt32]

This is my first post but can't anyone get a wheelchiar or electric cart.
You don't need a note or anything do you? It's not illegal to be lazy inconsiderate yes. illegal no. I think people are lazy and getting lazier every day. Someday maybe most of the people who visit will want to ride around instead of walking.Just imagine if they allow segways someday. i don't think they could stock enough of them.
MT32

[mechurchlady]

Welcome to SGT and legally according to the ADA they cannot ask you why you need a wheelchair, ECV or the disabled services such as the GAC pass or reader type devices for persons with poor vision.

Also some guests rent wheelchairs and ECVs for another member of their group such as dad runs ahead to get a wheelchair for his uncle.

No way will everyone start using ECVs and wheelchairs. It costs a lot of money that can be best spent on food, they are slower to get around the parks than walking, take longer to get on the train for example, have to be parked which is time and MONEY. If I was healthy I rather run up the steps and hop the train to a station and get of and waddle over to a ride. I rather take the trolley to the other side of Main Street or race walk there and be on rides in a minute or two.

Money is the biggest factor. Disboards has experts on disabled rights, the parks, and disabilities in general.