Not taken seriously as a vegan

Hi, I have been vegan for a month now and I have already been consuming cruelty-free and vegan product for everything else except food for a few years now (basically anything that was just personal pleasure like baking, makeup or clothes).

I decided to go vegan because I felt like it was a shame to keep hurting and killing animals while I had the resources not to. In other words, I just wanted to extend my empathy to more living beings so I did.

It is true that that was an overnight decision but I feel like people just take it as a joke, especially when I explain that I went vegan just because I could and do not want to have pointless debates around the subject.

I feel kind of alienated and a bit lonely, not gonna lie. I don't know if that is going to impact my social life in the long run.

So yeah, I mostly wanted to know if anyone had experienced the same things as I did and if so, how did you deal with it?