Scars mean the wound closed. Don’t hide the evidence of healing.

A scar is what a wound looks like after it stopped being a wound. It is not the injury still happening, it is the record that your body closed it. People hide them because they read as evidence of the hard thing, when they are really evidence of the part where it ended.

You are not obliged to explain anything to anyone, and some stories are yours to keep. But if someone is still inside the version you came through, what you survived might be the most useful thing you own. Ask God who, and then go gently.