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Walt Disney World Attraction Draft, 2023 Edition

Walt Disney World Attraction Draft, 2023 Edition

Banshee and I love sports, particularly the NFL. One of the joys of being a professional football fan is the annual NFL Draft. This is where teams take turns selecting college players to join their team. It is exciting watching to see how your favorite team select players so that they can improve themselves. The NFL Draft has evolved into a major event in its own right, tons of coverage, analysis, draft grading (where experts rate how well a team did choosing players). We at Buster and the Banshee decided it would be a fun afternoon activity to have our…
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Why Walt Disney World Is Great For Our Special Needs Daughter

Why Walt Disney World Is Great For Our Special Needs Daughter

If you have read our About Us page, you will know that our daughter Little Banshee has Phelan-McDermid Syndrome. Like others with this condition, she has autism, intellectual development delays, low muscle tone, and impaired fine motor skills. The upshot of all this is that she experiences life much differently than the rest of us. It is an understatement to say that this makes choosing vacation destinations very challenging. We have to select activities in which she can participate, but also things that appeal to three others who also have their own preferences. Normal sightseeing vacations are pretty much lost…
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Trip Planning Summer 2023:  What We Are Looking Forward to Doing at WDW

Trip Planning Summer 2023: What We Are Looking Forward to Doing at WDW

Buster and the Banshee thought that it would be interesting to walk through our trip planning process with our audience.  As part of this series, we will address many of the aspects of WDW trip planning that all families go through. In our last installment of this series, we talked about how we planned out our park reservations. Today, we will discuss a much more fun topic: what we are looking forward to doing on our next Walt Disney World trip. Sometimes I feel like we can divide the year into two categories: the two weeks we go to WDW,…
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Tips For Navigating WDW In a Wheelchair

When we visit the Walt Disney World parks, we usually bring Little Banshee along in her wheelchair. Although she can walk on her own (and even navigate stairs - hooray for occupational therapy!), she uses a wheelchair for three reasons. She has low muscle tone so she wouldn't be able to handle the rigors of walking around for an entire day in the park. She has a tendency to "elope", or wander off at a moment's notice. This is not uncommon for those on the autism spectrum. Therefore, it is safer for her to be in her wheelchair. A wheelchair…
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Little Banshee’s Favorite WDW Rides

Going to WDW with a special needs family member is both challenging and rewarding.  Nothing makes Buster and I smile like seeing happiness on Little Buster's and Little Banshee's faces.  But with Little Banshee, it goes a bit deeper.  She has Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, which means she has autism, is non-verbal, has developmental delays, and low muscle tone. Not as much thrills her.  She is not as easily engaged or amused. Because she cannot communicate with her voice, we need to look for her signs of pleasure when we are there.  In general, this is not difficult.  Little Banshee LOVES WDW! …
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UNDERRATED: WDW Rides/Attractions

This is another episode in our ongoing series "Overrated/Underrated". In this installment, we will give our opinion on which rides at WDW we think are underrated. One of the big draws of Walt Disney World are the rides and attractions. However, not all attractions are created equal. Some are iconic and are always popular draws (although many of those popular rides are overrated in our opinion, but that's the subject of another article... literally!). On the other hand, some of frequently overlooked, as judged by the fact that they rarely have long wait times. This article is dedicated to those…
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OVERRATED: WDW Rides

This is the next installment in our "Overrated/Underrated" series.  Today, we are going to share rides which we feel are overrated. Obviously, rides are the main reason why most people visit the parks.  We each have our must-do's and must-skips, and everyone lists are different.  However, there are some on our must-skip list which always seem to have long wait times for reasons that escape us.  We find that they don't quite live up to the hype. Now I know some people's personal favorites may be on this list, and those people might be offended by that.  Please don't be.…
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