Wow, I stumbled across this as we are finalizing all of our plans for our December trip. What a God send! We were to Disney three years ago with our four kids -- at the time 7, 6, 3, 2. Our oldest son, is an alphabet soup child (ADHD, AS, OCD, GAD etc!) and at the time was young and small enough to avoid the strange looks and stares during a meltdown. My concern with this trip is if he becomes overstimulated or starts to lose it in a crowd he's old enough (and big enough) that we could be looking at a whole new ball game! He is very sensitive to sensory stimulation, someone in line with too much perfume (happens all the time!), someone talking too loudly next to him, camera flashes can really throw him for a loop. Sometimes he becomes so self involved that he wanders off, or forgets to stay with us. He becomes very intensely interested (okay, okay obsessed) with how things work, I had a dream the other night that I looked away for a moment and he started to dismantle Pooh's hunny pot from the track! I'm not sure how a GAC might help but it's nice to know it's a possibility if we encounter problems.
Thank you so much for the information. You are putting my mind at ease again--I know we can do it! Boy I bet as a group we all could tell some interesting stories!
Michelle