"I don’t make music for the critics. I make music for the people."
A good mathematician is someone who can see analogies between theorems. A great mathematician is someone who can see analogies between analogies.
If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?
If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.