u/DistributionIcy8991

To be clear, I don't want to get asked it less often but I just wish I knew how to deal with it because my brain short-circuits between why I'm vegan and what I should say to this person without ruining the vibes, especially if they ask it and several people are listening.

It always comes when I least expect it, as well; like they find out I'm vegan and go "oh, you're vegan?" and that's when my brain starts to short-circuit because I know that in the next 30 seconds they will ask why, and I have to spend this time frame thinking about what type of person I'm talking to and what my relationship dynamic is with them and how in-depth I should go with my answer and ho- and then bam, they ask it and I'm not ready; I eventually get overwhelmed and give an answer that makes my soul hurt because it doesn't represent me, like "oh, I wouldn't eat a dog so I asked myself what the difference is between a dog and a pig so I stopped, haha."

Can any of you relate and how do you handle (or fail to handle) it?

They’ll say they love animals and they’re not vegan because it’s too expensive, they don’t have the time to cook, they have food allergies, but they’d really go vegan if they had the means to… and then they just buy leather without a second’s thought; for what reason?

Just face it man, you don’t think twice about the animal behind the product and when a vegan presses you on it, the reasons enter your brain, then they go away when you end the discussion.