Who else has an extremely low alcohol tolerance?

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Firstly, beer is wonderful and makes things like eye contact and conversation much easier. But most of the time, I don't get a chance to enjoy this. After three drinks, I become a zombie. I'm inattentive and completely zone out. People standing a foot from me can say something to me and nothing will register in my brain. During a conversation, all I can hear is a jumbled voice in my general direction. It's like my brain doesn't automatically register what people say. I have to focus extremely hard to even process even the gist of what people are saying.

Also, I get extremely sleepy to the point where I can barely keep myself functioning. It's really embarrassing because it'll happen at a bar or a party and I just want to stare into space and zone out. No matter how badly I want to listen to someone, I still lack the ability to truly focus and interpret what's being said. It's like my brain wants to pay attention to anything but the conversation.

Vodka makes my knees hurt.

I don't drink at all. It just makes me sleepy and introspective. It does not make me feel relaxed. It does not help me socialize better. I tried drinking quite a bit once, to see if I would develop a tolerance. I reached the point where I could drink more, but I never got any positive effects from it.

My feeling is that my natural state is a lot like most people's drunken state. I am really uncoordinated. I say the wrong thing. I'm really poor at reading people's reactions. I don't see any reason to do something that will make all of my symptoms worse.

Not extremely low, but moderately low in my case. Dad was almost certainly an Aspie, and he was more extreme than I am with the alcohol intolerance. But he persevered, and was able to drink more by the time he was old. It was strange that he had such a liking for something that made him feel so ill.

I am the opposite-- extremely high tolerance, especially considering my low body mass (5'5"-- about 110 pounds).

It takes at least 3 "standard drinks" in one sitting, on an empty stomach, for me to feel even a little tipsy. Only in the range of 8+ will I get a hangover.

I never drink socially-- only to help myself sleep.

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I completely zone out after one beer

I also have a low tolerance. Beyond that, I don't like feeling at all tipsy. It's just not fun for me. So if I do have drink, I won't have more than 2 drinks maximum. I also have a difficult time understanding why people like getting falling down drunk with all the side effects that come from it (nausea, black outs, DUIs, etc). I work with people who do these things on a regular basis. I just don't see how that could possibly be fun. They think I'm strange b/c I don't do these things. I had tried alcohol since I was a pre-teen. My parents let me drink, if I wanted. Often times, I declined it.

I have a very low tolerance for that stuff. I get drunk on half a beer.

One builds tolerance over time. Twenty years ago I remember drinking about 12 bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in one night. Such a feat would put me in hospital today.

I used to have a VERY high alcohol tolerance.

At 13-14 all my friends would get drunk from just a few glasses of strong cider, where as it took me considerably more along with a few glasses of rum too, and even then I'd still not be as drunk as the others. At 14-18 when going out clubbing I could easily drink £150 of cocktails, and I'd still be able to walk in a straight line.

With age brings lower tolerance, I now get pretty drunk (and hung-over) after 5-10 doubles (vodka and orange/coke/red bull) and 1-2 shots of sambuca my body just can't take any more so I'd no longer be able to drink without getting ill, and I'll find not only can I not do anything other than wander round like a zombie and acting stupid drunk, I often can't remember what I've done the next day...which is troubling.

I REALLY need to learn my alcohol tolerance, but I don't go out often enough these days to figure that out, by the time I realise I've drunk too much then of course it's too late.

I can't stand the taste. It's too strong for me to handle so no I have no tolerance for it. But I will never know for sure what it does it to because it's the taste I can't stand and the smell so I never drink it.

When I was on a ridiculously high dose of Zoloft and Seroquel, I was also an alcoholic, drinking lots of whiskey, vodka, and malt liquor. After I went off the meds, my alcohol tolerance dropped to a VERY low level, and eventually I stopped even WANTING to drink any more than a few times a year at most, and I preferred milder stuff like sake when I did drink. It seemed really strange (but it was a good thing) that this happened, because I was afraid my drinking would only get more out of hand. I'm sure that quickly losing about 40 pounds after quitting the meds is part of what brought down my alcohol tolerance, though, haha.
(For the record, I'm not saying this to demonize alcohol, and I'm not saying that being on meds causes alcoholism. This was just my bizarre experience.)

The taste it repulsive to me! I'm 16 and don't know how teenagers that drink tolerate it! I have never had more than a sip of alcohol and my parents' drinks and I can tell you, if they let me try it because the thought I would be put off alcohol because of the taste, they succeeded.

That's because you're thinking wrong.

Products that contain alcohol are hugely diverse. It's almost like saying you don't like food.

Even within beer there are loads of variations. Sweet, bitter, hoppy, strong, weak, light or dark (from bright, bright yellowy to deepest dark black), roasted, coffeeish, malty or a balance of those. And those are just English styles. Don't like beer? Try cider or perry (there are significant variations in cider/perry too - sweet, dry, strong, tame, sparkling, still, industrial, single varietal, different apple flavours, farmhouse). Try wine. Don't like the many, many varieties of wine? Try whisky. Don't like whisky? Try vodka, gin, rum. Don't like any of those? Try an RTD concoction or an alcopop.

Alcopops are very popular with people who don't like the taste of alcohol.

As for me, I'll stick with a good mild ale with a nice roasted coffee taste.

Last edited by Tequila on 18 Mar 2011, 8:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.

And also: a mild ale that is 3.5% tastes far less strong than something that is 20% or above.

There are some beers that are so weak (yet, flavourful) that you could easily have them with lunch and not feel drunk. We're not talking about no alcohol beers here (which are mostly dreadful) but low alcohol ones, although I wouldn't trust anything much below 3% personally.

I also really, really, really against drinking and the legal drinking age here is 19.