Why can caffeine have such wildly different affects on different people?

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What is it that’s different about different people that means caffeine (or maybe all drugs that alter mental states?) can affect different people in different ways.

For me coffee has no noticeable affect on my energy at all seems to actually work quite well as a warm drink before sleeping. But for others it can give them more energy or even make them anxious?

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Caffeine doesn’t have much of an effect on me, and certainly doesn’t wake me up or give me energy but that’s cause I’m autistic. In the same way that Adderall and other stimulants can help people with ADHD and similar processing (dis)orders mellow out, focus, and relax, caffeine can too.

That said if I have a lot of caffeine in one go (and I mean a LOT cause I have a pretty high tolerance) I can still get a headache from a blood pressure spike, so just because a substance doesn’t affect someone in one way doesn’t mean it can’t in others

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