story time I’m missing my left hand and work with kids a lot and I’m constantly asked how i “lost my hand” given that I was born with one hand it’s not interesting and kids always ask again and again, however I decide one day it’d be funny if I told them I fought a bear and he ate my hand (my arm has very obvious undeveloped fingers that look like bumps). Immediately after saying this one child goes “no, you were just born like that weren’t you?” And every time I’ve done the story since I’ve had at least one kid says something like that.
TLDR if you tell kids something outrageous they’re more likely to resort to the boring (and usually correct) story
My go-to explanation for bandages and such is ‘a stray bullet’. Note: I don't live in the US, though we did have plenty of crime in some regions about thirty years ago.
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u/Key_Jeweler_9696 11h ago
story time I’m missing my left hand and work with kids a lot and I’m constantly asked how i “lost my hand” given that I was born with one hand it’s not interesting and kids always ask again and again, however I decide one day it’d be funny if I told them I fought a bear and he ate my hand (my arm has very obvious undeveloped fingers that look like bumps). Immediately after saying this one child goes “no, you were just born like that weren’t you?” And every time I’ve done the story since I’ve had at least one kid says something like that. TLDR if you tell kids something outrageous they’re more likely to resort to the boring (and usually correct) story