At both parks, we asked for and were given a pass that essentially allowed us to use our daughter’s stroller as a wheelchair — as she is often non-compliant in situations like waiting patiently in a line, to the point of needing physical restraint/removal.

Disneyland’s approach is *accommodation*, and they do it with excellence. At Disneyland, the older park, there are rides where one is instructed to go in via the exit — where there is usually a shorter line of others with disabilities — and you are ‘worked into’ the ride, not just given a break in the line. At the newer rides, and at Disneyland California Adventure, you wait in line with everyone else.

This is perfectly acceptable to us, and, to a person, ride operators were friendly and genuinely accommodating. The difference for us is the difference between a manageable situation vs. total frustration and and exhausting and often embarrassing one.

This article seems a bit arbitrary; I hope that Knott’s approach is actually performed in a bit better way than it’s portrayed.

All this is to say that I think the majority of us aren’t looking to jump these lines, but to be ‘accommodated’ in a manner that lends itself to the same ‘amusement’, which is why we’re there, too.