Started wearing a cloak instead of a coat. Got lots of weird looks, and the occasional "Nice cape". Forced myself not to care about the weird looks, until I was

Started wearing a cloak instead of a coat. Got lots of weird looks, and the occasional "Nice cape". Forced myself not to care about the weird looks, until I was used to it. Then stopped wearing the cloak everywhere. Almost never got actual rude remarks to my face. Most of the catastrophizing was in my head, nothing bad came of it. Eventually I absorbed the lesson for myself and didn't need to worry about (most) other people's opinions. Basically I just doubled down on being weird, until I stopped being embarrassed by my own weirdness.