Teen Gothic

I’m 17 years old and in high school, needless to say the kids are mean about my style and the way I dress. I used to live with my dad who never let me dress the way I want to, but I live with my mom now and I can pretty much dress however I want. I really enjoy dressing in a way that represents me, but people tease me so much that I’ve thought about dressing “normal” just to make them stop. They do stuff like legitimately SCREAM at me in the hall then say “Ah! A ghost!” And they call me stuff like ghost girl or Count Dracula. I know it sounds stupid but over time it’s really worn me down, it started as annoying but now it’s feeling genuinely hurtful. I was just wondering if anyone else had ways to ignore bullies or make them stop.

I (22F) LOVE watching 70s-80s horror movies. A common trope I've noticed in these older movies is that its always the punk kids bullying the "nerdy" kids. This never made sense to me bc in my personal experience, it was always those kids who were bullied. I cannot count the amount of times people picked on me and called me a "future school shooter". And besides that, Alt subcultures and fandom culture seem to pretty much go hand in hand as most of us alt kids were also the nerdy ones(and ofc we were bullied for that too lol). To any elder goths on here I have a question: Was it common for alt kids to be bullies in the older generations or is this just some bullshit the movies made up?