Oh heck, DW doesn't allow you to edit comments, do they?
So I'm thinking about the drugstore example and what questions you're likely to get. The first one is probably something along the lines of, "Oh, what a cute baby! Is she yours?" or "Where did you get him?" I always find the questions with embedded assumptions like the latter to be hardest to field.
So I think my biggest piece of advice is to be ready for people not to ask, but assume. Have a stock answer ready to sidestep all of it. Something like, "Isn't she lovely? She looks just like her other mother" or whatever -- something that completely normalizes the situation. Add a big smile.
(For me, it was figuring out how to field all the "that one's so tan!" comments. Um. Uh. Er. I finally came up with, "no, she was just born that color," and it worked like a charm.)
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Oh heck, DW doesn't allow you to edit comments, do they?
So I'm thinking about the drugstore example and what questions you're likely to get. The first one is probably something along the lines of, "Oh, what a cute baby! Is she yours?" or "Where did you get him?" I always find the questions with embedded assumptions like the latter to be hardest to field.
So I think my biggest piece of advice is to be ready for people not to ask, but assume. Have a stock answer ready to sidestep all of it. Something like, "Isn't she lovely? She looks just like her other mother" or whatever -- something that completely normalizes the situation. Add a big smile.
(For me, it was figuring out how to field all the "that one's so tan!" comments. Um. Uh. Er. I finally came up with, "no, she was just born that color," and it worked like a charm.)