Have you ever experienced Social Stigma?

Yes. I went to an all-girl's high school where I was labeled and ostracized for being seen as a . Now that I'm out of that environment I think it's kinda funny, because while I now identify as bi, I had actually never had a real crush on a girl until a year into that environment. Now that I get no strange looks, I stopped feeling the need to dress or act differently to deserve them. It doesn't make sense logically, but it felt a little better to think that they treated me that way because I was a tomboy goth and obviously different, than it was to know that they were just phobic even though I was not in the least bit into any of them. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy.