No, DAS is NOT necessarily for people with autism. A member of our party was denied and has autism and ADHD. We were told to use the meet up accommodation which some CMs at the attractions are not trained
to manage/advise. Then we’re expected to contact the other half of our party when we are at the point in the queue for meet up. Great if WiFi is working which it doesn’t always.
Look I have been approved all times since the changes however it needs to be said that the Inspire Health Alliance’s interrogation methods are demeaning and inappropriate. There’s no excuse for them not using the same provider universal uses.
I’m glad Disney has cracked down on all these DAS offenders that think they can get a VIP experience without paying for it. It’s amazing how many of these hidden illnesses and “unspoken” bathroom emergencies seem to only be an issue when it comes to waiting in a line at Disney. If you can’t wait in line, don’t go…. Or pay the money to skip the line. That’s what makes things equal!
Let’s lock them all away in institutions. I mean after all who wants to look or deal with any anyone with a disability of any kind. Especially, those who fought for your freedom so you can be an ableist with this comment. I hope none of your family or yourself ever get diagnosed with a terminal illness. Severe brain injury from a car accident. A child born with cerebral palsy, cancer, Down’s syndrome, or Autism. Then their only wish is to be treated normal like others in a happy place only to be told they are not disabled enough. Not all disabilities are silent or hidden.
Forcing disabled people to pay for equal access to Disney is not fair. What kind of VIP service exists that is just you spending time between rides helping your disabled child, riding a couple rides, and then leaving because they can’t be out for more than a couple hours?
Here’s to hoping truly horrible things happen to you 🥰
Tell me you nothing about living with neurodivergent disorders, chronic illness or disabilities without telling me!
What an absolutely disgusting comment. Very ableist.
You shouldn’t have to pay for accommodations to have equality if you’re disabled.
let’s hope you or a member of your family never require accommodations due to need.
I would love to not require assistance and be able to live a ‘normal’ life, how very lucky you are!!!
And educate yourself, it’s not VIP access, you wait the same amount of time, sometimes longer as you have to queue again in the LL.
They are not issuing DAS for one year. It’s only good for the length of your ticket or when your annual pass expires. You must re-apply when you renew your pass. Several are being denied. Inspire Health is doing more denials since this change especially to those who have been approved several times under the new changes. Suddenly they no longer qualify. They seem to feel people with disabilities get miraculously cured since their last approval. Disabilities are permanent. Inspire Health is like the 3rd party company that corporations hire to do mass layoffs without the corporation getting their hands dirty. They humiliate you during the interview process. Treat you as if you are a burden. DAS doesn’t allow you to skip the line. It allows you to wait until it’s your time in a quiet place. You are only allowed to do one ride at a time. Walt Disney is run primarily of college program students. Which switch out every 3 months. There is zero communication with the alternatives Inspire Health offers if you’re denied DAS. Several cast members have zero knowledge on these alternatives. It’s also extremely humiliating to have to explain your disability at each and every attraction. We will not be renewing our 3k annual passes for 2 people like so many others. That’s a lot of money to spend to find out you have been denied and have zero accommodations, or be given alternative accommodations that make you feel humiliated having to explain yourself at every attraction. You can’t get an interview unless you have a ticket or pass first. Guaranteed money for them no matter if you can use what you are given. Take a look at their attendance lately. It’s been extremely low. Take a look at their recent campaigns to enlist new annual passholders for only 99.00 down. Don’t you think Inspire Healths denial rates are contributing to it? Several are moving over to Universal Studios. The third party company they use actually asks for documentation of your disability. No need to purchase tickets or passes first either. They verify it your paperwork. Once approved you then can apply for disability assistance in several parks across the country. Universal being one of them. Universal makes me feel safe. Their process is not humiliating. It works the same as DAS at Disney. It’s just not app based. You use a card you are given instead. Take a look at the wait times at Disney vs Universal. You will see Universal is far more busier currently. It has nothing to do with Epic. Their other 2 parks are equally as busy. Customers are taking their business elsewhere finally. Disabled people should not feel shame for being different. It’s a struggle just living life daily for us. None of us ask for this card we were dealt. It’s worse when Inspire Health employees tell you maybe you don’t belong going to a theme park at all. Are we as a society back to sending and locking away disabled people so they can’t be seen or heard? Disney sure seems to be doing this. Including those who have fought for our country and have been denied DAS because Inspire Health says you are not disabled enough.
I am a recent stroke victim and a ten year annual passholder at the highest level. I have paralysis on one side of my body and was told I would never walk again. Well, I am determined. My boeling instructor in college told me there was no way to turn a 7-10 split into a spare so I sent the ball down the lane as he watched both pins fall for the spare. I showed my PT that I could walk without a cane for short distances. However, I can’t stand in a line to get on a ride due to my handicap.
There is a simple solution for Disney to implement into their app to resolve this for people like me and it isn’t too far off of what they are already doing. What they need to do is add a qualifier for disabled guests that allows them to get a return time for a ride from the app instead of having to go to the ride to see a CM for one. Then you go to the ride at the appointed time much like the fast pass used to work. Keep all the same rules that already exist. Not a big change, but it would make things better for a lot of people. It would also cut down on congestion around the ride area.
Disney is crowded – it’s hot and crowded for everyone – and if you have an aversion to that, it’s not the place to visit. If you’re afraid to leave your house any other day of the year for fear you will be triggered by other people in a crowd, then don’t tell me that a Disney trip with a skip the line pass is your Constitutional right. Just the same as if you have allergies you don’t go to Washington DC for Cherry Blossom season and expect the national park service to remove all pollen for you. I think Disney’s plans to add sensory friendly huts in their new construction sections as “safe spaces” as an alternative for skipping the wait in line DAS is a great balance and will be fair for all guests.
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No, DAS is NOT necessarily for people with autism. A member of our party was denied and has autism and ADHD. We were told to use the meet up accommodation which some CMs at the attractions are not trained
to manage/advise. Then we’re expected to contact the other half of our party when we are at the point in the queue for meet up. Great if WiFi is working which it doesn’t always.
Christina
My teen has autism and anxiety and has been denied DAS and we were also told we could use the meet up option
Krystal
Look I have been approved all times since the changes however it needs to be said that the Inspire Health Alliance’s interrogation methods are demeaning and inappropriate. There’s no excuse for them not using the same provider universal uses.
Penny
I’m glad Disney has cracked down on all these DAS offenders that think they can get a VIP experience without paying for it. It’s amazing how many of these hidden illnesses and “unspoken” bathroom emergencies seem to only be an issue when it comes to waiting in a line at Disney. If you can’t wait in line, don’t go…. Or pay the money to skip the line. That’s what makes things equal!
Carl
Let’s lock them all away in institutions. I mean after all who wants to look or deal with any anyone with a disability of any kind. Especially, those who fought for your freedom so you can be an ableist with this comment. I hope none of your family or yourself ever get diagnosed with a terminal illness. Severe brain injury from a car accident. A child born with cerebral palsy, cancer, Down’s syndrome, or Autism. Then their only wish is to be treated normal like others in a happy place only to be told they are not disabled enough. Not all disabilities are silent or hidden.
Noneya
You can’t really be this stupid.
Forcing disabled people to pay for equal access to Disney is not fair. What kind of VIP service exists that is just you spending time between rides helping your disabled child, riding a couple rides, and then leaving because they can’t be out for more than a couple hours?
Here’s to hoping truly horrible things happen to you 🥰
Amanda
Tell me you nothing about living with neurodivergent disorders, chronic illness or disabilities without telling me!
What an absolutely disgusting comment. Very ableist.
You shouldn’t have to pay for accommodations to have equality if you’re disabled.
let’s hope you or a member of your family never require accommodations due to need.
I would love to not require assistance and be able to live a ‘normal’ life, how very lucky you are!!!
And educate yourself, it’s not VIP access, you wait the same amount of time, sometimes longer as you have to queue again in the LL.
Carl
They are not issuing DAS for one year. It’s only good for the length of your ticket or when your annual pass expires. You must re-apply when you renew your pass. Several are being denied. Inspire Health is doing more denials since this change especially to those who have been approved several times under the new changes. Suddenly they no longer qualify. They seem to feel people with disabilities get miraculously cured since their last approval. Disabilities are permanent. Inspire Health is like the 3rd party company that corporations hire to do mass layoffs without the corporation getting their hands dirty. They humiliate you during the interview process. Treat you as if you are a burden. DAS doesn’t allow you to skip the line. It allows you to wait until it’s your time in a quiet place. You are only allowed to do one ride at a time. Walt Disney is run primarily of college program students. Which switch out every 3 months. There is zero communication with the alternatives Inspire Health offers if you’re denied DAS. Several cast members have zero knowledge on these alternatives. It’s also extremely humiliating to have to explain your disability at each and every attraction. We will not be renewing our 3k annual passes for 2 people like so many others. That’s a lot of money to spend to find out you have been denied and have zero accommodations, or be given alternative accommodations that make you feel humiliated having to explain yourself at every attraction. You can’t get an interview unless you have a ticket or pass first. Guaranteed money for them no matter if you can use what you are given. Take a look at their attendance lately. It’s been extremely low. Take a look at their recent campaigns to enlist new annual passholders for only 99.00 down. Don’t you think Inspire Healths denial rates are contributing to it? Several are moving over to Universal Studios. The third party company they use actually asks for documentation of your disability. No need to purchase tickets or passes first either. They verify it your paperwork. Once approved you then can apply for disability assistance in several parks across the country. Universal being one of them. Universal makes me feel safe. Their process is not humiliating. It works the same as DAS at Disney. It’s just not app based. You use a card you are given instead. Take a look at the wait times at Disney vs Universal. You will see Universal is far more busier currently. It has nothing to do with Epic. Their other 2 parks are equally as busy. Customers are taking their business elsewhere finally. Disabled people should not feel shame for being different. It’s a struggle just living life daily for us. None of us ask for this card we were dealt. It’s worse when Inspire Health employees tell you maybe you don’t belong going to a theme park at all. Are we as a society back to sending and locking away disabled people so they can’t be seen or heard? Disney sure seems to be doing this. Including those who have fought for our country and have been denied DAS because Inspire Health says you are not disabled enough.
Jimbo
I am a recent stroke victim and a ten year annual passholder at the highest level. I have paralysis on one side of my body and was told I would never walk again. Well, I am determined. My boeling instructor in college told me there was no way to turn a 7-10 split into a spare so I sent the ball down the lane as he watched both pins fall for the spare. I showed my PT that I could walk without a cane for short distances. However, I can’t stand in a line to get on a ride due to my handicap.
There is a simple solution for Disney to implement into their app to resolve this for people like me and it isn’t too far off of what they are already doing. What they need to do is add a qualifier for disabled guests that allows them to get a return time for a ride from the app instead of having to go to the ride to see a CM for one. Then you go to the ride at the appointed time much like the fast pass used to work. Keep all the same rules that already exist. Not a big change, but it would make things better for a lot of people. It would also cut down on congestion around the ride area.
Hildy
Disney is crowded – it’s hot and crowded for everyone – and if you have an aversion to that, it’s not the place to visit. If you’re afraid to leave your house any other day of the year for fear you will be triggered by other people in a crowd, then don’t tell me that a Disney trip with a skip the line pass is your Constitutional right. Just the same as if you have allergies you don’t go to Washington DC for Cherry Blossom season and expect the national park service to remove all pollen for you. I think Disney’s plans to add sensory friendly huts in their new construction sections as “safe spaces” as an alternative for skipping the wait in line DAS is a great balance and will be fair for all guests.