Honestly, I don't recall anyone ever giving me a hard time for being a Trekkie. My dad was a big SF fan who passed that onto me, so I grew up watching STAR TREK and BATMAN and THE TWILIGHT ZONE with him, back in the sixties.
As for school, sure, I was occasionally bullied because I was your archetypal skinny, four-eyed, socially-awkward bookworm, but it never occurred to me to hide any of my nerdy interests. I was that weird kid who was into science fiction, comic books, and monster movies and everybody knew it: classmates, teachers, relatives, neighbors. Heck, I met my best friend in junior high because she spotted me reading a
Doc Savage paperback in the school cafeteria. (Or maybe it was a
Captain America comic book?) That was at least fifty years ago and we're still friends to this day.
Went through most of public school with my nose in a book, then belatedly discovered organized SF fandom in college, just in time for the first couple Star Trek movies. Became a professional Trekkie and never looked back.
And nowadays? Even outside fandom or work, nobody ever bothers me about being all sci-fi all the time. To the contrary, I often get compliments about whatever geeky tee-shirt I'm wearing that day, regardless of whether we're talking Star Trek, Batman, Godzilla, or whatever. Sometimes it even leads to some nice social encounters.
Got into a nice conversation with a bank teller recently because she admired my "Creature from the Black Lagoon" tee-shirt. Turned out she was also a big monster-movie fan.
