Yeah, that's kind of how I feel the only was I can think of to handle it. Say "Thank you" and nothing more.



I was super self-conscious as a teen, but then someone did put it to me that way. They asked how often I thought about what other people's bodies compared to how often I worried about my own, and that it was probably the same ratio for everyone. That made me feel better because it took a lot of pressure off.

I don't know that teens never notice/never think about adults' bodies. I remember as a teen there were plenty of times when boys would talk about how the student teacher had a nice ass, how the princpal's moustache made him look like a porn star, how such and such female math teacher was fat with thinning hair. The girls were a little less graphic about it, but they would comment on adults bodies under certain circumstances too.
So it isn't that they don't think about it at all, but no, they won't comment to an adult about their body. To each other maybe, but not to an adult.

I'm not worried about comments from children of any age, though, because I'm never around kids or teens.
I get what you mean though. I do wish I'd been less self-conscious then, and was less so now!