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Reddit Post Praises Disney DAS Call but Replies Highlight Persistent Inconsistency

Interview-based approvals keep producing different outcomes for identical cases, raising fresh questions for lawsuits and a state probe.

Overview

  • A guest who posted on Reddit on Saturday described a roughly 45-minute Disability Access Service phone interview with a cast member named Frazier that resulted in approval and a cast compliment filing.
  • Replies to that post contained multiple accounts from users saying they were denied this year despite having the same diagnosis and unchanged answers that won prior approvals, underscoring outcome variability.
  • The original poster advised preparing notes and describing worst-day symptoms to help in interviews, but other commenters pushed back that many disabled people cannot reliably articulate needs under pressure.
  • The DAS process relies on phone interviews and occasional medical or higher-level review, and reporters say that individual kindness from cast members exists but does not fix the procedural inconsistency.
  • The program remains under external scrutiny with a California lawsuit and a Florida state investigation, and an unconfirmed guest report of changes to party-size rules is being monitored but not verified by Disney.