Do self harm scars make a person less beautiful and more threatening?

I (17F) went through a very hard time in my life when I was 14/15. In attempts to cope, I was a severe self harmer and even needed stitches once because of how bad my self harming addiction was. I was in a very awful state. My room smelled like blood all the time because of how extremely bad my cutting was.

However, now I have gotten clean. I quit cutting. Got better mentally. I got more in shape, grew my hair out and dyed it back to brown. I learnt to do my makeup really nice and sort of had a glow up. Now I have guys ask me out, strangers stare at me and tell me I’m very pretty, I fit in easier with others. It’s a very stark contrast from how people treated me when I was younger.

But since I used to cut so much, my forearm has horrible looking healed scars on it. I feel like it puts people off. I try to hide them but sometimes when I wear a t-shirt and people see it for the first time, their attitude becomes more distant. I feel like guys get scared away and people just judge you/see you differently. I live in the midwest so people are just passive aggressive here that’s why it’s hard to catch onto cues. What do other women/teachers think when they see young girls with severe but healed self harm scars?