I've never really felt that way...but I've always carried little about what people thought unless it was
a) something positive
b) I asked them for their opinion.

Makes me think of my highschool days, my junior english teacher KNEW me and my buddy would come to class (IF we came to class) stoned off our asses. She came into my senior english class and asked my teacher if i was behaving myself, I had straightend out alot by that point so my current teacher says yes. My junior year teacher replys "Oh we had problems with him coming to class physically but we got those fixed. Never did get the mental absence solved though". Ahhhh I busted my ass laughing.