Freakdom is the caterpillar stage of butterfly wonder. There are always more than enough people who will find some word, or some term to annoy or to hurt. The word 'freak' can only hold you so long as you hold your own plight as a serious matter. That is what any antagonist is counting on. The more we can laugh at ourselves, truly see ourselves as ridiculous not merely intellectually, but in a heartfelt knowing, the less power anyone can have to hurt us with language, or opinion.
All life is ridiculous.
Everyone is a clown, ultimately. We poor primates cling to our inventions, our bitter rivalries and solemn sacredness, and in the end, we are but pretentious and shaven apes. It is a demon for me, and therefore something to be rendered powerless. It was supposed to shock, not only my readers, but myself. If we cannot take charge of the words that hurt us, then we are at their mercy.