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My parents don’t respect my choice and EVERYONE around me is turning vegan (vegetarian)

Just A Rant

So I’m Indian, that sadly explains more than half of the reason this is happening around me. I was born in a meat eating family (nothing much just chicken goat and sea food and eggs) and everyone knows that I cannot stay alive Even for a week without meat products.

And high key context I’m bi , atheist and a misandrist , (no your breathing does not offend me) and even my atheism is a very neutralistic and my moms very religious suddenly these past few years and my parents know I’m an atheist and the fact that I’m the only one who accompanies my mom to temples ( my neutrality says that I don’t believe in God, I think of it as a very fictional story and don’t feel threatened by going to some so called auspicious places but then again I find it utterly ridiculous for people to worship said god but I’ll never say anything to them as it’s their decision and I like to think of it as their little hobby) so even just today my mother organised a prayer circle or something (katha) and I was the one who drove her around to get all the stuff and helped her and woke up for her early in the morning, got ready and sat inside my room (cause again, why would I go out) and she asked me to sit with her and I came and sat next to her not participating in any prayer saying and shi and everyone was standing suddenly and I didn’t stand and the priest asks me to stand so I was going to stand but gathering my scarf (dupatta) so I could properly stand and my father grabs me by my arm and forces me to stand up and me being on the brink of my patience MUMBLED****** that they should be grateful I’m here and he growls at me to go inside but I don’t listen anyways I’m not talking to him and that’s another completely different story

All My friends almost were the same as me and I have 4 close friend groups some with overlapping friends first is A,B,D and me second is Ad,D and me rest are unnecessary here so A is a vegetarian and she doesn’t mind us eating non veg cause we all often eat our own share but last time we went out B who is not a vegetarian suggests we eat vegetarian food and D follows her and it would be awkward for me to have meat then and then in my other friend group Ad (different person than A) (everyone got separated to different colleges) so all of Ad’s friends there were vegan and when we hung out last month (Ad, D and me) she redirected all the menu items to vegetarian options I mean the food is okay, but I really love eating meat items and I definitely do not judge anyone like it’s not my place to judge for their life choices like you can leave your life, however, you want unless it when it affects me like, I really really wanted to eat something good, and I was really looking forward to you know hanging out with them, but this is not an isolated incident. There have been many instances that this has happened with me like even my mom right now has turned into vegetarian, and like I don’t even have any words to say. and I don’t know how I’m gonna hang out with them. I mean, I really love hanging out with them. They are my best friends and it’s not just that the hangout just about food, but it is a major quarter of it like even if they don’t mind me eating meat this also means that we cannot go to the major restaurants or anywhere that we used to go to I honestly feel very confused and sad about this part like I hang out a lot with my friends and Jasu. They don’t think I’m hanging out. I switch those groups like I have four groups right so one of them is just one of my best friend and she lives very far away, okay and she still comes to see every two weeks. I cannot ask her to meet much more and the other friend group is four people. One is a child. We are all children. She is especially young, so she’s not allowed out much and one of them shifted to another city and comes to see us only once you and the first two groups that have mentioned here are the ones frequently I hung out with.

Like I said it before as well, I genuinely do not care whether you are extremely religious, or are you turning vegetarian or vegan? Why are you letting it affect me? That is my main grievance?
And a few days ago, when my mother came out as a vegetarian, it literally led me to act very bitterly. She is very, unlike me like as you can see from my above way of writing, I am very neutrality about everything (except misandrism that it) like one day, I saw a man sitting behind someone in the bike, and his shirt was lifted up a bit, and we could see his hips and shi so I in the middle of a crowded road, proceed to loudly, say that the men in this generation have no shame look how he is showing of his back, just to impress girls, and shi yeah, I am very particular about that. Oh yeah, and I definitely do feel like I would have ADHD by the way going here and there in between.

Extremely sorry of this ran of mine has ran on for too long. I apparently do not go for therapy because I’m busy spending all that money into other anime waifu merchandise ahem ahem please help me. How do I navigate this messed up situation? Like a genuinely feel like crying right now, thank you twin for reading all this

Peace out

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 8:15 PM UTC

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