@Mirrorreaper back in the 1990s a lot of people started to use "freak" in a similar way. Whichever subculture(s) we might have identified with (punk, metaller, hippy, goth, raver, rasta etc), we knew that there were other subcultures who thought they were "normal" and called us all freaks. So if we owned and celebrated being freaks, that insult lost all its power. But it also subtly blurred the arbitrary boundaries between conceptions of "normal" and "freak".