Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey Do they bug you sometimes? Lots of times people like this get that I am obsessed with Disney, but don't get the reason that I like Disney so much. Most people think I like it solely because it is fun. Yes, the "fun-ness" definitely helps my obsession, but that is not the only reason I adore Disney. I love the feeling I get wehn I'm there, that euphoric, happy, nostalgic, magical feeling. I love the way everything is clean and nice and pristine all the time. Some people don't get that. For example, the other day at school I said that I preferred Disneyland to Disney World. The girls I was talking to didn't get it. They were like, "but Disney World has so many more rides!" I knew if I tried to explain it to them, they still wouldn't get it, so i lamely said "I just like it more." In reality, Disneyland seems more charming an magical to me, and Disney World is so big and commercialized. Believe me, I love them both, both of them have made me cry with happiness, but I prefer Disneyland. It just annoys me so much when people act like that! Anyone else agree?
Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey Do they bug you sometimes? Lots of times people like this get that I am obsessed with Disney, but don't get the reason that I like Disney so much. Most people think I like it solely because it is fun. Yes, the "fun-ness" definitely helps my obsession, but that is not the only reason I adore Disney. I love the feeling I get wehn I'm there, that euphoric, happy, nostalgic, magical feeling. I love the way everything is clean and nice and pristine all the time. Some people don't get that. For example, the other day at school I said that I preferred Disneyland to Disney World. The girls I was talking to didn't get it. They were like, "but Disney World has so many more rides!" I knew if I tried to explain it to them, they still wouldn't get it, so i lamely said "I just like it more." In reality, Disneyland seems more charming an magical to me, and Disney World is so big and commercialized. Believe me, I love them both, both of them have made me cry with happiness, but I prefer Disneyland. It just annoys me so much when people act like that! Anyone else agree?
Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey Dang, I just realized that I posted a total of three times. Oops! Sorry
Originally Posted By midget3175 MadaboutMickey, most people don't get why I love Disney so much. I am 32 years old and still love disney as if I were 10. I was asked the other day by a 12 year old why I am so obsessed with disneyland. What is this world comming to?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Yea, will I'm almost 60, divorced and mostly go by myself. You can imagine what is said about me. My question is... Who Cares?
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer >>I love Disney so much. I am 32 years old and still love disney as if I were 10<< midget3175, haven't you heard? we're all 10 years old in the park. I feel the same way you do and I have couple a couple of extra decades on you. I have no defense, but if we have to be addicted to something at least it's something that brings happiness and isn't hurting anyone. My grown kids (shudder) aren't Disney people. It's not that they don't like the park, they just don't have the same love of the park that many of us here on LP do. I can't even say that they get it from there mother because Tinkeroon is easily as addicted as I am. I just wish our son wouldn't refer to us as D-tards.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer >>My question is... Who Cares?<< Goofyernmost, I do, I always get a thrill out of meeting someone who shares the same love of the park I do.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost No, No...I mean who cares what other people think. I also enjoy talking Disney "Shop" with people but we have to adjust to the fact that very few, by comparison, share our obsessions.
Originally Posted By pirategrammie Im another 54 year old that is a 10 year old in the park! My grown kids and family dont get it...But my dear granddaughter, bless her heart, has become a huge disney fan! We are both 10...well DH says Im 10 and the DGD is a close 11! Shes really 14 1/2...lol...And they even let me dress them funny....as DH puts it! we have been counting down since our last trip! Oh and I would go alone too!
Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey >>very few, by comparison, share our obsessions<< I know a grand total of ONE other DisneyDork at my school. Thanks goodness he's on my bus. If he weren't I'd be very very sad. One day I was sitting next to a friend of mine (not disney obsessed) and fellow DD was in front of me. I was talking to fellow DD and my friend next to me is like, "You're really that obsessed with disney?" I realized then that I really don't talk about Disney that much with other people that arent DD's. Sure, I'll say like, "Oh, I love disney!" And I've made it clear that I'm obsessed, but I never talk about new rides and stuff when my non-obsessed friends are around.
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 <<I realized then that I really don't talk about Disney that much with other people that arent DD's.>> I find it SO mich easier to find things to talk about with other Disney addicts than I do with people that aren't! I have only been going to DL since 2002. I live on the East coast and everyone I know goes to WDW. I'm like you, I like DL so much more. The last time I was in WDW was 1999. I felt like I was being taken advantage of at every corner of the place. The charm wasn't there like it is at DL.
Originally Posted By WestWind I have had 'Disney' conversations with several strangers recently. A person at a gas station made a comment on my Disney shirt I was wearing, ... Disney conversation. I was talking finances with a person at a bank recently and they mentioned a planned trip to Disneyland in November, ... Disney conversation. A client at work was telling me they would be away for a couple of weeks for a vacation to Disneyland, ... Disney conversation. I was happy to talk Disney and provide information to them.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<very few, by comparison, share our obsessions>> Actually, I think many if not most people have some sort of obsession. Some are more "mainstream," like football, or NASCAR, others like Star Trek, or tattoos, not so much. Whatever it is that excites you, I can guarantee others don't understand... and it works both ways. Even within each obsession, there are degrees of fandom that others who share it don't understand. I like Star Trek, for instance (that's how I came up with my screen name). In the Trekkies movies about Star Trek fandom, they talk to fans about obsession, and whether or not some take it too far or too seriously. I've certainly been to conventions where some people seems a little "off" to me. Same thing with Disney people; I've met some that, for lack of a better word, were a bit nuts. BUt overall, it's all good... we're just having fun.
Originally Posted By Sweeper Everyone has their thing. I personally don't get a lot of obsessions people have so I don't care if people find mine odd. Everyone is a nerd about something. The number of times a guy puts a ball through a hoop just doesn't do it for me. But the number of clicks through a turnstile of a ride gets me going.
Originally Posted By WestWind Reading my last post, I see it does not seem to be on topic. My point was that there can be benefits to an obsession. A person with an obsession can have have meaningful and enjoyable conversations with people that do not share the same obsession.
Originally Posted By USCSurfer I say 'who cares?' what people think. For me, Disneyland is a great escape. Even though I live in OC, I don't get there all that often, but when I'm there, it does take me back to being a kid again. It's a lot of fun. It's innocent. It's clean. And it puts me in a good mood. No one will deny that we need a little of that in this world. As for obsession? I wouldn't call it so much an obsession. I think the only thing I obsess over at this point in my life is USC football! In fact, I've been looking at new Toyotas, and passed up on an '08 Highlander today because it was almost exactly the same shade of blue that is UCLA's school color. I know, that is obsessive to almost pathological levels! As for Disney...well, I love Disney. Is it an obsession? Perhaps not, but I do love everything it represents. The movies, the park (DL). It's all good! I wouldn't have worked there for 10 years had I not found it to be a purely joyful place.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Same thing with Disney people; I've met some that, for lack of a better word, were a bit nuts.<<< Really? I didn't realize that we had met! Seriously folks...it is hard to find someone to go on and on about it with. Much to my surprise when I started working were I am now, there were about 35 employees. One of the employees had a vanity license plate the read..DISNEY1. Turns out that his obsession with WDW is something even I can't understand. Four trips a year, one week at a time, driving from Vermont. That's 3000 miles round trip for just about 4 days in the World. I'm afraid that this is way more then I would even consider. Oh,well...he makes my love of the place seem pretty tame.
Originally Posted By out numbered mom USCSurfer, I loved your post. I am a dye hard Trojan as well, and completely understand your car dilemma. Beat the Huskeys MadaboutMickey- I was in a similar situation with my DH. We went to dinner with a couple and the husband works for Disney and is a big Disney fan. He and I talked and talked and talked. After dinner my DH looked at me a little differently. He said "I knew you liked Disney, but I didn't realize HOW much you liked disney"
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I work at an Italian restaurant on Sunday nights and one of the young girls I work with is a Disney nut, like me. She only works every OTHER Sunday, which means the weeks she is not there are tough for me to get through. The bartender there told us one time that the night before she had a customer that was going on and on about trying to find a way to afford to take her kids on a Disney trip. She(the bartender) was so bored she really wanted this person to leave. Then, the bartenders' boyfriend bought the girl a drink, so she stayed and kept talking about it. She, (the Btender) said to her boyfriend at the end of the night, "Why did you do that?" Couldn't you tell I wanted her to leave?" lol Well, my Disneybud and I said "All you needed to do was call one of us!" We'd have loved that conversation, told her how she could afford it, and then some!
