Totally agree! Let kids ask and let them shame the whales!! The human brain is hardwired from birth to notice anything abnormal. As adults we still notice this shit, it's just that we have a socially imposed "filter" stopping us pointing and shouting out, something that kids haven't learned to have yet. I'm a powered wheelchair user and I regularly get kids staring, pointing and loudly asking questions. The braver ones will come up to me and straight up ask me "why don't your legs work?" The parents get so embarrassed and try to shut down their kids honest questions and it pisses me off. Don't tell kids not to ask this shit, that's how and why people become prejudiced against disabled people, they're taught that disability is a taboo subject!  It's because people are never allowed to ask the questions they clearly have while they're still young that they become awkward or abusive toward disabled people as adults. Guess what, parents, I already know that I'm different and sure, some people might get upset but I'm not going to bite your kids head off for asking honest questions and neither should you! I happily chat to them and explain why I'm the way I am. If the parent is okay with it then I'll even offer them a ride in my powerchair cuz they're usually pretty in awe of it. I get the parent to put the kid in my lap (helps that I'm a woman, I think) and then let them drive my chair around (with my hand over theirs on the joystick... I'm not a fan of crashing, lol) The kids love it and it helps to break down that fear of disabled people that so many seem to have. My old carer used to bring her 3 year old to work sometimes when she had nobody to look after her. The little girl was scared at first but after the first day she thought I was awesome as I let her play with my chair and my ceiling hoists (she loved whizzing herself around the room in either). It cracked me up as the first Christmas after she'd met me, her Mum asked her what she wanted from "Santa" and she immediately replied that she wanted a powerchair like mine cuz I'm cool and my chair is amazing. Her Mum explained that those are only for people like me that have "poorly legs" and the kid pointed to a bruise on her knee and went "but I DO have a poorly leg, Mummy!!" It cracked me up when my carer told me about it. The thing is, letting kids ask questions makes them more comfortable with people like me because we're not a scary mystery anymore. The younger they learn to accept disabled people, the better! Awesomely it works the opposite with regards to fatties as if you're honest with kids about it (e.g. Telling them "that person eats too much and doesn't exercise enough and that's why they got fat") then they just become even bigger shitlords than they naturally are :D