Go with your gut! Never second guess it.

LOL. I write this because I know what you mean, the situation isn't funny I know. When you decide to become your authentic you, you will be hated and miss understood, which means you have to be very aware of the energy you are putting out. If I may let me take something from what my dad did, he always looked at life situations in a half full kind of a way, so take any positivity from a comment that you can, remember they are just projecting, they have no clue, and if the the comments are nothing but negative energy just remove them, you wont be able to help them, based on my projection, and that's all it is, let it go.