Am I Missing my inner Disney Child?

Andrea aka BloggerMumma has declared April as Disney Month to celebrate her 25^th birthday (Oh how to be that young again) so I thought I would do a few posts to join in with her with this being my first.

Some of you might be a little confused by this as if you follow me on Twitter then  you would know that I caused a bit of fuss the other day with my declaration of not liking Disney. Now I know this has probably made me an outcast but I thought I would take a moment and to discuss why.

As a child we watched very little TV; watching TV was literally a Saturday morning thing with programmes like ‘Going Live’ and a Sunday afternoon thing where we would watch a family favourite; So this being taken into account I was exposed to much Disney.

That doesn’t mean though that I lived in a different reality and never watched Disney it was just something that wasn't a key part of my childhood. Even growing up in my teens we had the basic four channels so didn’t even have the luxury of watching the Disney Channel like many of my friends did.

Time and time again I watched Disney films and I struggled to be captured by the fun and love of what was being shown to me. Yet that doesn’t mean that I didn’t watch them.

Snow White would always be accompanied with a story by my Dad saying that it was the first film he saw in the pictures and he had to go out half way through because he didn’t like the Queen or the Mirror. (Strange man in many ways)

Fantasia absolutely terrified me. I can’t quite put my finger on why but between that dancing, magic and the music it just did.

Dumbo was a film that made me cry even as a child especially when Dumbo visits his mum and she cuddles him. (Even now it brings a tear to my eye)

And the Elephants on parade truly scared me! What a terrifying sequence!

Although Dumbo is a character that I enjoy especially when you consider that despite his ‘flaws’ and ‘disability’ he became confident in himself and learnt to fly.

There are many more that again I just didn’t grasp.

However; there were two films that did really grab me as the first ones that I went “Oh I like this” and they were Aladdin and The Lion King.

Aladdin was the outcast who dreamed big, blagged his way through life by talking and ultimately had a good heart to make the best decisions. A character that I wanted to be like (Ignoring the fact that he was a thief and a liar in places)

The Lion King, again like Aladdin, showed a child who made mistakes but the true path was always inside him and because of that he grew into a good man.

These two characters were ones that I could back with enjoyable music and a lovely visual display.

But was I captured by Disney? No, I don’t think so. I really don’t know why either.

It hasn’t stopped me from allowing the Boys to watch Disney and subsequently the next Disney post I do it based on their favourite film.

I do wonder though is Disney more of a girl thing? Where girls can be captured by the magic, romance and finding a true love despite what the world thinks of you? Or am I just missing that inner child in me that wants to jump out and be a massive Disney fan?