Why doesn't alcohol effect me?

So what does that mean?

In what way does that answer her question?

Certain people can just handle it better than others. Generally the fitter you are the least tolerance you have, the opposite is also true and heavier, taller and bigger people can handle alcohol better. Furthermore it is also a mind over matter thing, I have friends that don’t get drunk, simply because they don’t want to, regardless of the amount they drink (we tested it). Then the more your drink the less it affects you.

you have to be careful with that. yes it may not affect you in the way most people are affected with their loss of function. but if you drink too much, you can one slow your nervous system down so much it kills you, you can get alcohol poisoning, and another thing that could kill you is dehydration because alcohol dehydrates the body. but to answer your question haha you probably have a huge tolerance towards alcohol.

I am sure it does. Perhaps it effects your self awareness while you are drinking and therefore you don’t see the effect. Have you thought of that?

lol my dad is like that. he’ll have like 5 roman cokes and 2 beers and be fine and know whats going on and not feel dizzy. he talks like freakin crazy though. non-stop talking all night O_O

What exactly do you mean without consequences? If you mean the day after consequences, well either you just dont drink that much (how much exactly is what you want?) or you have a high tolerance. I mean I can have between a dozen and fifteen shots and like 4 hours of sleep and no hangover or anything (haven’t tried more, i’m usually done at that point). It’s just high tolerance. If you mean in the moment, I dont know whether you can accurately assess that or not. Alcohol is a depressant, unless you’ve got crazy tolerance, you’re likely to have some slowing down of reflexes and such, even if it isnt all that obvious to your or anyone else around you. Basically the answer is really high tolerance, and some psychology thrown in there.

I just mean that I can drink the same amount as my friends, and all of my friends are falling and yelling all over the place like losers and I’m standing on the deck patting the cat. I can wake up and go to work the next morning with no problem and my friends are all hungover, vomiting and can’t function properly. I’m just wondering why I’m not like them when drinking. I have friends thinner than me, and friends bigger than me, taller, smaller, different ages etc yet I’m always the only one who can function like a normal human when drinking. It’s usually me putting the younger kids to bed, washing the dishes, locking the house and making sure everybody is getting home safely because everybody else at the party can’t seem to remember their last name. Like, I’d never drive after drinking or anything. But I’m just a bit confused as to how I can do this but nobody else can?

Thanks for your answer. Very helpful.

haha your welcome. i know it was a little off topic from the question but it seems you can “hold your own” haha. and alot of people who can do that dont know that they are still at risk for some things

Yeah, that’s kind of what I was wondering about as well. I don’t drink at all very much lol. Gosh everybody on here must think I’m an alcoholic.

haha nah, i know many people who hold their own but they also dont know when to stop haha.

Aside from the tolerance thing, it may be because you dont want to let yourself get outside of your own control. Kind of like how some people are harder to hypnotise for the same reason. My old flatmate is the same, she would never act really stupid after drinking, and its just because of her personality.

Just high tolerance. The falling and yelling all over the place is more psychological than anything else. But the rest of it is probably tolerance.

I understand what you’re saying - all alcohol affects me except for rum. I can drink 3 bottles of the stuff and not feel even remotely intoxicated. It’s not due to tolerance, though, because I can drink 1 tequila and be on the floor. I was told at one point that it had something to do with the scent…I have some sort of immunity to the rum scent, so it doesn’t affect me. I’m not sure how accurate that is, but all I can say is, I get what you mean, even if nobody else does.

Ah ha thanks for that! I was afraid nobody would get what I meant and just think I’m a total alchie with some sort of immunity even though I don’t actually drink very often! It’s good to know I’m not the only one :P