The mental struggle of being vegan

I have been a vegetarian since birth and my new year’s resolution for 2025 was to go vegan so here am going 24 days strong. But as a young girl, im constantly ridiculed and treated differently by my friends who don’t share the same ideas. One of my “friends” has even implied that I have no mind of my own and im basically giving up all the foods i loved for no real cause except that my mom is vegan. However, I have done lots of research and decided for my self that i want to become vegan and my mom has not pressured me once for over 16 years to go vegan despite her own diet. Im also told by people that im “hurting my body” and that it’s bad for me to be vegan but I have learned about the actual many health benefits of it. The thing is, I have never in my life judged anyone for eating meat or tried to tell them they shouldn’t because it is every individual’s choice, so why does everyone including my friends think its okay to judge my choice. Additionally, a few months ago when people were reported to be stealing dogs and eating them in the US, my friends mentioned it and i told them my true opinion: what is happening to those dogs is not nearly as significant as what happens to billions of other animals and the only reason people care about dogs and not those animals (that they are the cause of) is because they are domesticated. I am 100% set on becoming a vet and am currently working towards it due to my passion for helping animals. But i just want to know if anyone can relate to this, give me advice, or tell me that it gets better? I have hopes that in vet school i will meet fellow vegans that I can talk to because right now i have no one who gets me.