I don't know where to talk about this so I'm doing it here. I have funny answers to say to people that ask me where all the damage to my arms have come from (when I go sleeveless in the spring and summer). I tell them I have a cat most of the time. You wouldn't believe how much people believe this. Sometimes people would ask me that question but answer it themselves before I can say anything like "you must have a cat" or even weirder is "are those birthmarks?" People would even ask me if I've been fighting. I give them an all-purpose answer and then when I'm out of there sight I laugh my head off. Does anyone else here go through strange things like this? Oh, brother.
"Because I love her, I have seen her broken heart, and the tears she cried alone. I have cried with her and had a broken heart too."
I just tell people it's from past self harm if they ask. Why beat about the bush?
I don't think anyone in their right mind would believe someone covered in scars if they tried to blame a cat, I certainly wouldn't. Most will be thinking self harm in their head despite the fairy tale but they just wont say it out loud.
Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money.
They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
One time in my first year of college, my roommate covered for me by telling everyone that I wrestled a bear.
Obviously not true, but it broke the tension of the moment with a joke, and since one of the major pastimes of the first couple of months there was going down to the dumpsters to watch the bears, it distracted everybody and got them talking about a new subject.
These days I normally just tell people the truth, but I've been away from it for a while, so it's gotten easier. I've never been the type of person who could get away with crazy/joking answers, unfortunately. It's just not my personality. Thankfully, that was totally my roommate's personality, so no one even blinked when someone asked about my scars and she covered for me.
Self-harm
Sex with a porcupine
Fighting
Dog
I slipped.
Car crash
After watching a film last night, my new one's gunna be 'Ever seen the film Pieces? Yea... Go google it. I got on the wrong side of an American chainsaw weilding high-school maniac'
I think because self harm is generally not something people want to talk about all the time, people won't pursue the issue even if you give a ridiculous excuse.
If I don't want someone to know about my self harm, I won't show areas of my body where I've harmed, rather than try and make something up.
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher." ~William Wordsworth
Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
I'd stick with something that could be easily imagined. Animal scratches, falling, etc are good because they're something people know about. If the tale is too absurd it wont be convincing and in my experience that just makes people think you're even crazier and/ or ask more questions.
I just tell the truth now, since it's all in the past.
Back in the day though I used to say "fell in a rose bush" or "a cat did it" until one of my school friends pointed out that i didn't have a cat. Oops.
There's a whole list of member-submitted fun excuses under distractions at the top there ^^^, RYL ain't just a forum remember!
In the past few years I've only had one person ask me what they were and I was honest with her, just shrugged it off and said they were old, which they were. In school I used to get a lot of stares and questions, and not giving a **** I'd happily bull**** them. My favourites were looking at them fearfully and whispering "the Candyman did it!" (and then, if the situation called for it, looking behind them and screaming "HE'S BACK" and legging it) or just giving them a really weird look and asking "what scars?"
