I went vegetarian in 2014 when I felt the need for a change in my life and I realized I don't need meat, so cut meat off the menu for a year and a half, interrupted after.
Started to eat plant based for health reasons in Feb 2022, and then through different rememberings, social media and people speaking about not harming animals for food as we don't need to, I cut animal products off my menu. I also remembered episodes from my childhood living in Romania where the men in my family would cut animals in the yard to use them for our meals and how disturbed I was about it, how it didn't make sense to me the horror I would experiment inside of me related to my dad, mom or extended family who were joyous that we had fresh animal meat available.

I still have honey though, so I would not call myself a vegan. If not accepted in the group, I understand.