People who willingly classify themselves, and knowingly categorize themselves are people who are just looking for acceptance. Everybody is depressed and everybody deals with it in different ways, you dont have to be an emo to be depressed, in fact you don't have to ve anything. What you should be doing is trying to live your life and live it by your terms, if you want to lump yourself in with the rest of the herd thats fine, willingly become a number if it makes you happy. Otherwise sit up and try make something of yourself. Whining and calling yourself and emo is not constructive, wondering why people pick on you is not constructive. There is nothing you can do about the way people treat you, silly confrontations like this just make people want to do it more becasue you need realize yourself you cant depend on others to define you if you do well...then you are lost. Asking people not to pick on you is pathetic, you want people to stop? Try holding your head up once, try accomplishing something, sitting in a corner being sad isn't constructive...that's just feeling sorry for yourself.