How to say to some people "shut up" and really getting my message across?

While i'm 24 and i've enjoyed punk music since i was in my teens. I also have incorporated some of their lifestyle things into mine, i dress kinda punky and i also dye my hair red. I know it's not about the way u dress, but dressing in a certain way makes u express even better whatever message u wanna send to society. I don't label myself as a "punk chick" but i do like the music and i am into punk also as a lifestyle, without labeling myself as one. The thing is that a lot of people say to me that by age 30 i should stop all this "punk thing" It's something i've been enjoying since i was really young why should a number make me stop that? What can i say to those who tell me to change that punky thing about me without being nasty? Cuz i've tried to be nice and told a lot of people that's it's my life. I've also got mad at some people, but nothing seems to work. I get frustrated when people think that age has to force u to let go of what you've loved all your life.

How to say to some people "shut up" and really getting my message across?

I think you should be proud of who you are. So you like to dress punkish! Whats the big deal!! So what if your thirty dressing like this is apart of who you are. I totally understand why it hurts so much to be told to "grow up", people don't understand that they are insulting you as a being. If I were you I would just say this "Do you mind if I'm frank with you?..." wait for them to say no

"This is the last time I'm ever going to tell you this, I never want to hear you ask me this ever again. I dress the way I want to dress, it is no business of yours. I'm proud of myself. Every time you ask me this, you insult who I am! I do not want to hear of this again."

Sometimes you just have to make yourself crystal clear. Just be honest with people, talk to them sincerely. They will get your message.

How to say to some people "shut up" and really getting my message across?

I think people's choice of dress style is a personal choice and no one has a right--unless you are on their clock like at a work place for example--to dictate to you otherwise.

I find it somewhat odd that you have this need to "communicate to the world" via your attire and would ask you to what means?

I mean, once you send that message then, so what?

Generally, sending messages or making statements to "the world" is something that teenagers do because they are repressed in some fashion but after they realize that hey, the "world" couldn't care less about what you have to say unless it benefits them in some way that they grow out of it.

That being said, I find it quite comical to see older people trying to dress "outside their age group" as it were.

It's like when these obese women wear these undersized spandexes that enhances their flabulous celluloses as it if were somehow "sexy" LOL maybe to a starving lion who knows...