I sadly admit that I probably no longer remember exactly what it feels like to be a teenager. As an adult, hearing aids are completely neutral in terms of their impact on attractiveness or how I consider someone.
Casting around for some corrollary, I remember being very self conscious about getting braces as an adolescent. Now I think people wearing braces look pretty cute, especially adults. Is that because the general opinion about braces has changed, or have I just changed? Glasses look very neutral or sometimes very fashionable. I think when I was young and worried about my braces, I was never bothered by other people’s braces, I was just self conscious about my own.