What names have you been called?

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Oreo (I'm biracial)
Germophobic
neatfreak
know-it-all (but only after trying to help co-workers after being asked for my help - my retort - "Then don't EVER f'n ask me for anything from now on!")
Old Goth (I have a lot of black clothing - I buy what's discounted)
Ragpicker (mostly when I was a kid - I used to trash-pick because people threw out good things plus I was poor)
Amazon
weird but good-hearted
Strange but nice
non-conformist
Liberal democrat (?)
whore (without reason-just because I was a woman)
apple-polisher
spic
a stuck-up ret*d
different
indifferent
"we think she's on something" (that really pissed me off)
psycho (but only after I started defending myself)
socially awkward but highly intelligent
a hippie
Bohemian
space cadet
well-built introvert
attractive but weird
Grace Jones Lite
Boy George Dark
pseudo-intellectual
backward over-sensitive

When I was 16 I got called ''sexy'' by 12 year old boys - and I could tell they were just taking the piss.
Also I got called ''loner'' by a group of girls when I was 14, because I was walking home from school by myself and one of them just had to shout that stupid word.
And I got called a ''f*****g freak'' when I was 11 by a boy because I was messing about in a weird way with some friends.

I never got called any names at the primary school - only the big school. I was not sorry to leave that place on the last day of year 11.

Too many to count.

In all fairness, though, I did manage to deal some of the vitriol back to them.

I used to get a lot of names:
Mainly relating to:
Being good at school/something (swot, teacher's pet, etc.,)
Looking different/ignoring "fashion" (goth, vampire, etc.,)
Acting different (freak, oddbod, etc.,)
Any other random insult they thought they could get a rise out of me for (speccy-four-eyes, b***h, ugly, fat, etc.,)

I still get some of them now from a few people, but I now take a lot of the "insults" from others as a compliament;
I've put a new definition on them:

If someone thinks I'm good at something and decide to pick on me for it, it means they're jealous of my intelligence/memory

If someone bullys me because I look/act different to them, I can be thankful that I'm not like them - ie. a bully that has to follow the trends of fashion/celebs and other sheep-like fads.

If someone picks a feature about myself that I feel is not something I choose (in that I choose not to pretend to be "normal" rather than I choose to be different) - ie. if they call me fat, ugly, etc., then these hurt the most. I REALISE it's because they have low self esteem and are trying to put me down to make themselves feel better and I am able to feel a little bit sorry for them and just be glad I'm not so horrid as that, but some part of it really still hurts...

No matter what they call you, the best revenge is living well.

ruveyn