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Stimulants don't have the same effect on me as other people

SuperUltraMega

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Just wanted to throw my experiences with stimulants out there to see if anyone feels the same, because they don't affect me the same as other people and I don't really understand it:

Caffeine:
Very rarely has any noticeable stimulating effect on me. Maybe once or twice in the last year I've had a coffee and really noticed it (faster heart rate, sudden energy and excitability - the same thing most people get from it all the time), but most of the time it actually makes me feel a bit sleepy. It definitely doesn't stop me falling asleep. Usually makes me very irritable, but that's it.
Higher dosage doesn't make any difference, it always feels the same whether it's a small instant coffee or 300mg of caffeine powder in one go.

Amphetamine:
Feels much the same as caffeine.
After an hour or so I'll sometimes get a short burst of energy but that quickly fades, after which i'll have no apetite even if I'm starving hungry.
A few hours in I'll start to get massively dilated pupils and from that point on I can't sleep whatsoever, and it staves off any feeling of fatigue for many hours thereafter. Great for pulling an all-nighter, but nothing resembling euphoria. Doesn't even make me talk any more than usual. Other people can't tell I'm on anything.

Cocaine:
Done lines of 100mg a couple of times, gives me just the barest hint of a good feeling. As such no desire to do another line after it's worn off, which i guess is a good thing.

The exception to all of the above is if I take any of them while already drunk - in that case I feel like they all have a very significant effect. Whether this is actually the case or not I don't know.

MDMA on the other hand has an incredible effect, gives me a tonne of energy for a few hours. Can't sleep just like with amphetamine - although that's partly because I'm still revelling in feelings of euphoria for at least the next day.
 
Coffee has no noticeable effect on me either. My father is the same. I think it's genetic. Never tried any other stim, so cannot add to that.
I think caffeine non responders are quite common.
I can drink 3 strong coffees before bed and sleep like a log.
 
A few hours in I'll start to get massively dilated pupils and from that point on I can't sleep whatsoever, and it staves off any feeling of fatigue for many hours thereafter

This is kind of the point with Amphetamines, especially the Adderalls and Dex amphs taken by school kids to "study" and "concentrate". I don't think you're going to find a massive burst of euphoria in much of anything that you listed. Now the MDMA is a different story and even though it's no where close to where it used to be, the Methamphetamine in it makes it a slightly different beast far more able to bring about a rush (and psychosis too).
 
Do others feel that way, why, it's a whole subgenre of the vast corpus of stim fanfics and docs, scattered like twinkly shards all across the internet!

Some threads specifically noting sleepiness on stims, comparisons to the same on caffeine, and ruminations/lamentations that an OP might be "different" from his peers (or is it that he's possessed of super-powers?):

https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/348355/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/608656/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/688367/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/685679/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/718244/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/532403/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/369696/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/835176/
https://www.bluelight.org/xf_live/index.php?threads/742219/

warning: that's based solely on topic, haven't been curated or rated for quality.

Although you seem to be suggesting an immunity to stimulants across a broad range of classes, rather than just a different angle on things. Odds that you have no response to these drugs is zero, and it could well hurt you in bad ways to think such things. For now, be happy that cocaine doesn't get you high. At the least, it will save you thousands of dollars, and sure, insert your Starbucks coffee price joke here.
 
I had a quite similar experience and never got much euphoria out of stims. I hated amphetamine and methamphetamine. They only ever gave me a racing heart and uncomfortable sleeplessness for 10 hours. I didn't like coke either, but it had the advantage of lasting for only 1,5h. Mayby you're not an upper guy and you're more into empathogens or other DOCs (psychedelics, downers, etc). Some people only like stims, some only downers, some both. Everyone is different...
 
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