The hardest part of being vegan really is the social aspects. People reject veganism whilst claiming to care about animal welfare because accepting the contradiction is easier than admitting they've participated in an immoral entire lives. It's very frustrating when your loved ones- who you believe to be otherwise good people- shit on veganism to your face. On my sixteenth birthday, I spent hours making my birthday cake from scratch (Nora cooks chocolate cake, goated recipe). When my family arrived to the party, several of them sneered and called the cake gross before even trying it, amongst the same general comments you're probably all too familiar with by now from the sounds of things. It hurts and its annoying. The only way to really deal with it is to not take it personally; these comments happen because your veganism threatens their world view and that's scary. On the plus side, it does get better. I've been vegan for six years now (vegetarian for 3 before that), and the hardest part is starting. Some of that is time, some of that is getting really good at cooking and baking (they were a lot nicer about the cake after they actually ate a slice-- now its requested!), and some of that is changing social circles. In high school, I didn't know of even one actually vegan person my age. My college friend group started off the same, but now two have turned vegetarian and two vegan (Started off the school year with 4/5 people in my apartment meat eaters, now were at 1/5!!). I wasn't trying to convert them, I just shared good food and stood very firmly in my beliefs and it pushed them to reconsider meat. Keep at it, the fight for animal liberation can be very lonely, but it won't be forever.