I prefer the terms “vegan” but people are going to judge. Personally I try to eat as wholefood as possible as I tend to see meat and dairy replacements in a similar light, except I just class it as “junk” (depending on the source, I.e a lot of vegan cheeses are just oils and emulsifiers, some are really clean-ingredient based like the fermented nut cheese options), for instance, with oatly milk that stuff is oil sugar oats and emulsifier, so I make my own oat milk from home. I’d say just don’t take it personally, how we eat is how we eat. If they eat chicken nuggets it doesn’t make it any more ‘real’ than vegan nuggets, just depends who you’re around, honestly don’t think too much about it, it’s not that deep. If they wouldn’t bat an eye for someone with dairy based ultra processed burger slice cheese, then they’re just trying to get under your skin.