I hate cooking for non-vegans
I love cooking, it's genuinely one of my favorite everyday activities, especially because I get to be creative in a way. But whenever I have guests over or I am just cooking something for myself, I get one of two things: backhanded compliments, or faces of digust.
Backhanded compliments such as "I usually don't like this stuff but this tastes great!" or "not vegan but I like this a lot". Arguably the worst one I've got was: "I know you don't cook meat, but if you did, I'm pretty sure it would also taste great". I like cooking vegan because that gives me a chance to not listen to others talking about dead animals at the table, and yet here we are. Sometimes I'm not even sure if they think these are compliments, or if they're genuinely being mean.
Another case was when I was out with friends and I picked the vegan almond ice cream. A friend asked what it tastes like and I said "literally the same" and they still picked the dairy one. (Such smaller things happen every time I meet with friends, but there were too many at this point and I'm afraid it'll just explode in their face sooner or later)
And then there's the faces people make. I get it, mock meat and dairy alts don't always taste like corpse or breast milk, but why are they acting like the vegan stuff is the disgusting one out of these?
I am sick to the stomach with people. I guess I'm writing this down here because I have no one in my inner circle who is vegan. Not a single friend or family member, and it's tiring. I don't even dare mention veganism at this point because I get into arguments for no good reason. Sorry this got too long, and if you made it this far, thank you for reading. I'd appreciate any advice you have regarding any of this because I don't know how to help myself anymore.