Any vegans out there?

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Just wondering as there was a recent post on autism going hand in hand with a love of animals very often. Are there any other vegans around here? I am vegan because I love animals and the lifestyle is also very convenient as an autistic person because I am allowed to eat only what I want in social situations and people understand because it is labeled as just vegan, if that makes sense. however, I also don't like to make people think all vegans are finicky eaters; that's not true for most vegans, just for me because I like to eat the same things all the time!

Anyone else vegan or ever considered it?

I started out vegan 11 years ago, and went to vegetarian 10 years ago. I found it too difficult to find food and stay full. I had to compromise. I'm glad to be able to sustain a no-meat diet though.

Yep. I am fussy, have been all my life (aspergers trait probably).

I choose to be Vegan for health. Though I do dislike the suffering of animals.
Especially since a lot of the animal food industry causes suffering not for the meat/animal products but solely for profit.
eg bobby calves, mink coats...

There is another recent vegan/vegetarian thread here: viewtopic.php?t=328706

But yeah I'm vegetarian, tried to go vegan but I usually fail at it badly so I tend to stick to vegetarian.

Vegan

yup, and for the same reason. i learned about the conditions that farm animals suffer under 12 years ago when I was dating a vegan, and became vegan immediately. I started eating dairy again, on an off, a little while ago, but I'm thinking I need to go strict vegan again. Dairy, although many think it's less inhumane, is equally if not more so (battery cages, etc.). Like others with ASD, I can't stand thoughts or images of animal mistreatment. I find it more distressing to see or hear about than violence against humans, which I guess is strange, but that's the way I'm wired/conditioned.

Welcome!

I am a vegetarian who doesn't eat egg and who avoids dairy. I prefer no dairy, but if something is made with it, I will eat it anyway.

I became a vegetarian 35 years ago. As a child I always wondered how humans on the one hand are capable of torturing, killing, and eating animals but on the other hand don't consider eating humans who have died from natural causes instead. The former is clearly much more cruel than the latter.

But then humans are perfectly capable of killing each other in wars for the most ridiculous "reasons" related to their social identity.

I avoid eating eggs, and in the last few years I have minimised my consumption of dairy products. I'd like to go onto a fully vegan diet, but this is extremely difficult if you have to travel for work and stay in hotels on a regular basis.

The planet would be much better off without humans.

I've been a vegan. I've spent most of my life as an ovo-lacto vegetarian. My husband and children are ovo-lacto vegetarians.

I am currently not eating food, so I suppose I'm a vegan. But, truthfully, I would eat almost anything if I knew I could. (I have eaten meat this year. But before this year, I hadn't for almost 20 years.)

I kept a vegan lifestyle for most of my 20s. From 19, I think. I had a slight change of philosophy, mainly about the value of my own personal boycott etc. A long-winded thing. I live by a different system now, that I can't claim is perfectly logical. I make species by species choices these days. I am pescetarian, and eat only incidental/ingredient dairy, and rarely. I would not eat incidental mammal or bird direct slaughter products. Fish I will eat, octopus I won't. And so on.
So, veganism is something that has been important to me. Some of the principles still are central to how I live, only in a different form. It's something I respect, so long as it isn't theatrical. I didn't change from any difficulty - I never found I craved the old foods, even from the very beginning.

I laughed that the 'pescetarian' autocorrect suggestion was 'proletarian'.

I actually grew up on a farm.
And when the bobby calves were sent off, I thought they were going to grow up to be bulls, for meat or breeding.
I thought that Veal was Deer - they should label it baby cow. Then we'd see how many people would buy it!

I am an ethical vegan (no animal products whatsoever, not just a diet), but I'm not autistic.