Not that you have to answer, obviously. :) It just seems like you have a very similar perspective to a lot of fat folk who've experienced discrimination or just weird questions, and I'm always curious where people are coming from.
I have cerebral palsy, and when I was younger I had surgery to correct the way my leg bones had been pulled out of alignment by my muscles. This meant breaking and resetting both my femurs and putting pins in each leg to hold them together while it healed. That in turn meant lengthy scars on each thigh (since the metal plates went far down the bone.) If I wear a bathing suit, or don't wear long pants, my scars are quite obvious.
It's not that I feel discriminated against. It's just that very small children ask, and I don't know how to explain. "Surgery" is a scary concept. As is the idea of getting a scar like those I have, especially to a very young child. I tell them "I got hurt, but now I'm better," but I never know if it's the right thing to tell them.
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Date: 2004-12-16 05:53 pm (UTC)I have cerebral palsy, and when I was younger I had surgery to correct the way my leg bones had been pulled out of alignment by my muscles. This meant breaking and resetting both my femurs and putting pins in each leg to hold them together while it healed. That in turn meant lengthy scars on each thigh (since the metal plates went far down the bone.) If I wear a bathing suit, or don't wear long pants, my scars are quite obvious.
It's not that I feel discriminated against. It's just that very small children ask, and I don't know how to explain. "Surgery" is a scary concept. As is the idea of getting a scar like those I have, especially to a very young child. I tell them "I got hurt, but now I'm better," but I never know if it's the right thing to tell them.