My flabber is well and truly gasted.

Just rich Manhattan moms? Come on, surely there are some rich Brooklyn moms doing it, too!

This piece should really be in the NYTimes Style Section- or perhaps it was inspired by it?

One rich person doing something = trend = PROFIT!

nnnoooooo the Post is MUCH better for this sort of stuff. NY style section would be all like "what an awesome idea!"

This is so sad. My kid is "special needs". If we went to Disney World, he would legitimately be able to use the handicapped entrance for the rides. However, the costs involved with his various therapies ensure that we'll never be able to afford a such a trip. Which is fine because I get that it is out of reach for many families regardless of whether or not their kids are disabled.

It reminds me of the not-very-funny joke about the mom pushing her child around in a wheelchair, and someone asks, "What's wrong with him, why can't he walk?" and the mom says, "Certainly he can walk, but why should he when he doesn't have to?"

But wow. That Post story just makes me feel really sad. All the benefits of a disability without the heartbreak. Supreme entitlement.

I with the New York Post could only write stories about stuff that outrages me. Because when the outrage is focused in the right direction it feels so much less dirty.

Well, ick.

The same goes for able bodied people who use handicapped signs for a more convenient parking space.

A girl I work with has a handicapped sticker in her car- it's for her fiance, who I understand is seriously ill/disabled, but she uses it when she drives around just her, or when a group of us go shopping over lunch. I always feel a little embarrassed strolling out of a handicapped space.

anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin, who caught wind of the underground network while doing research for her upcoming book “Primates of Park Avenue.”

Yup, I will read that book.

The same goes for able bodied people who use handicapped signs for a more convenient parking space.

My mom (who has ALS and doesn't really get out anymore, but used to be able to get around with a walker/motorized supermarket cart thingie/wheelchair) had a handicapped parking tag and sometimes my parents couldn't find handicapped parking spots available. It really pissed me off because I know people do what brujita and TPS mentioned. I remember once they went to Wegman's, which has "Shoppers with Small Children" parking spots, and there were no handicapped spots available but they refused to park in a (completely unenforceable) Shoppers with Small Children spot because they thought it would be wrong.

It is also sad because handicapped people have enough trouble finding employment as it is.

Sort of skeptical here. I have trouble conceiving of Disney parks as a big draw for the very rich -- if you can afford to drop a lot on a vacation, you're going to go to a theme park? This is a thing? and then I read

http://www.xojane.com/issues/new-york-post-rich-manhattan-moms-renting-disabled-people-to-skip-lines-at-disney-world

and I'm inclined to agree with those lines (har har) of thinking

"Dr Wednesday Martin" appears to be a "social anthropologist" in her own mind; the only bio info I can find is self-authored, and says the doctorate is in comp lit. Not hating on comp lit; that was a major of mine, but. Google has never heard of Dr Martin outside of her own self-promotion as a not particularly specialised writer.