Why do adults think they can be so nosy with children?

[noneshallsleep2]

DS (aged 10) is on crutches because of a long term hip condition.
When we're out in public, complete strangers will ask him "Oh, what have you done to yourself?" "Were you playing football?"
I know they're trying to be friendly, and that I'm being touchy, but I'm sure they wouldn't ask this of an adult on crutches.
DS or I usually shut the conversation down with "it's a hip condition".
DS hates it because it highlights he's "different".
PIL have suggested he starts making up outrageous accidents instead "I got it sky diving..."
But it drives me mad.

Some people quietly say to me "do you mind me asking ..." and I absolutely don't mind explaining. It's them putting DS on the spot that I hate.

Adults just tend to do this.

If your son is uncomfortable, then he can make the askers aware he doesn't want to divulge the exact nature of his medical condition by just being inventive and thinking up some really good-but-impossible replies - like wrestling the shark, maybe an elephant trod on his leg? Or perhaps he injured it as an extra in the next James Bond film?
Or playing football with David Beckham ?

@DieAntword I hope you mean he pretends to and he's not actually inserting cannula's into himself

People ask me all the time what the sensor is in my arm or my pump handset but I really don't mind 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thing is Ginger hopefully you're an adult who is fully comfortable in your own awesomeness. When you're just a kid and people use language like what's wrong with X, oh isn't it a pity for X etc, and they aren't yet sure of their place in the world, people really should be more careful about their language.