I know how you feel about the scars and what I have heard people do is make up really funny stories about them. Like "I got into a fight with a racoon" I had unprotected sex with a porcupine, I took my lizards for a walk and they held on for dear life, I keep falling off of cliffs trying to catch that damned roadrunner, I fell asleep, and the clown got me, I wrestle Tigers... , I'll just put it this way: when they tell you not to feed the bears, it's for a damned good reason.

Scars are no laugh matter, but sometimes when you say something like the above examples, it switches the "gears" in their minds and the conversation topic is changed. I have found it works quite well. I hope they are of some help to you and you don't take it the wrong way...I am not making fun of you by saying silling things like the above, just trying to help out a little