[Gunny Highway]

So you don't respect them and they don't respect you. But you're friends sort of. And you want them to respect you, even though you don't respect them. And you think the way to do it is to challenge them to a fight? I can see why they might think you're a dork and pick on you.

This reminds me of a kid I grew up with. He was a pretty intelligent guy when it came to book smarts, but didn't have a lick of common sense but thought he knew more about everything than pretty much anyone else. He did things like try to learn to breakdance from an instructional manual. Last time I saw him he was getting ready to build a PC to try to save money, despite the fact he lived 1/2 mile from the Dell Outlet store and knew nothing about computers. We picked on him constantly as kids. Even my friend's dad used to pull the kid's chain. It was pretty much just the fact that he was so easily goaded into arguments about pretty much anything so we'd drive him crazy by just picking random things to argue with him about.

If he'd just stopped letting us bait him into arguments, we'd probably have stopped eventually so that's my suggestion to you.