As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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I need some advice. My DS9 is high-functioning autistic and is constantly stealing food, mostly sugary foods. In the last week, he has snuck and eaten 15+ boxes of Girl Scout cookies that I had in the freezer. He sneaks them into his room, eats them in his bed and this morning I found a package of Samoas in the shower (the plastic tray with the 6 cookies left in it, full of dirty shower water, ick!). He has also taken chips, candy, frosting, ice cream (out of the container with his fingers), if I make a pie or cake he will eat whatever is left when no one is looking (also with his fingers). He has also been caught eating out of the sugar jar, which I then have to throw out the sugar. He also sneaks cheese, bread, chips and some other things as well.
I have thought about getting locks on everything, but I get so frustrated with everything being locked up. I already have to lock up the Wii, DVD player, TV remotes, iPhones etc. because he sneaks out in the middle of the night to play or watch tv and I feel like I'm running a prison.
We have healthy foods available all the time and he likes fruits and will often eat these as a snack, but then later takes a box of cookies. Often he doesn't eat very much at meal times, and this has been normal for him since he was little. He will eat very little one day and then a ton the next. But now I'm suspecting that his lack of appetite is due to his sneaking candy and treats.
We do offer treats daily. We usually give the kids a few cookies each day, or a bowl of ice cream after meals. When we go to the store we pick up candies. So it isn't like he never gets them. He never asks for any treats or candy (unless we are at a store), he doesn't ask me if he can have a few cookies or ice cream or whatever. We offer them in the evening, before and often he sneaks them after bed. My DD also sneaks some, but not very often and I would consider hers a little more typical, taking a few cookies when no one is looking. Not multiple boxes per day.
I've talked to our doctor and they really just said to lock the stuff up. I just can't stand having locks on everything, and I feel he has to learn how to control his own eating, locking it up will I'm afraid just make things worse.
We have caught him stealing from stores a couple times - mostly when he was much younger (4-5) and I think only one time was food. The other was products. We made him return the items and apologize for what he had done. This seems different, like he's driven to eat sugar. I don't believe he has stolen anything from a store in several years, I could be wrong, but he doesn't hide things very well. I'm really grossed out by the whole thing as we recently moved to NM and live in a rural area. We have had a mouse in the house (I think we are rid of it) and we have had a few centipedes (which totally freak me out). So I don't want food in the bedrooms and crumbs all over that would attack mice or bugs (that would attack centipedes).
I'm just wondering if anyone with neuro-typical kids has this problem or if this is stemming from his autism. Also, any suggestions on what to do would be great.
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