I suppose that attractions are a better name for them, seeing as there are a wide variety of activities you can take part in depending on the ride (I mean… attraction).

For example, Hyperspace Mountain and W.E.B. Adventure are both rides (attractions! I’m not going to get this, am I?), but they work very differently. Hyperspace Mountain is your more typical roller coaster, though admittedly it happens during a dogfight in space. W.E.B., on the other hand, is a sedate experience where you sit alongside other guests in a slow-moving car which spends more of its time stopped than it does moving. If it weren’t for the hectic action of trying to save the Avenger’s campus from rampaging spider-bots, the whole thing would have a very different feel to it.

Regardless of what we call them; however, these rides/attractions are one of the main reasons that we all come to the Parks. But we’re not going to talk about the individual rides very much! Which is possibly surprising, I know.

There are plenty of really good guides out there for all of the rides at Disneyland Paris – I’ve read/watched many of them in our preparations for our trips. There isn’t any need to try and duplicate those guides. Instead, I want to talk about how they affect our neurodiverse brains.

Go slow to speed up.

When it comes to the rides/attractions, I recommend going slowly at first.

Especially when the rides are new ones that you haven’t experienced before. It is always easier for us (and this is all of us, not just those of us with different brains) to calm our brains and bodies when we aren’t really stressed out or overstimulated. So, our best choice is to keep us as low on the stress-o-meter (which isn’t a thing, I know, but it is how we talk about it in our family) as possible.

This might seem counterintuitive when you’re in the Parks and are wanting to see and do as many things as possible. However, we’ve found that taking it slowly is the best way to actually do more of the activities in the Parks. When we try and do top much too quickly, we quickly reach a point where we have to go and take a long break before we’re ready to do anything again.