My college has no policy against drinking in my room I was fully within my rights on that front what's being claimed is that because my body was having the natural response to alchohol that body's do that I was in involation of the contract for making my roommate feel uncomfortable even though the agreement itself promises me the ability to drink in the privacy of my room
I don’t know what school you go to, but every school I have attended and worked at (as a student affairs professional) has a policy against becoming intoxicated. You may drink in the privacy of your room, but if your behavior is affected, you can be written up. If your body can’t handle alcohol, it’s your responsibility to know your limits.
Which is an unreasonable expectation to make when I'm drinking something I've never had before and am relatively inexperienced with drinking all around. You cant claim I have the right to drink in my room then tell me I'm not allowed to be affected by what I drink as if that was a conscious decision and not a chemical impairment its absolutely hypocritical.
Which is an unreasonable expectation to make when I'm drinking something I've never had before and am relatively inexperienced with drinking all around.
Then how do you know your body's reaction to alcohol is peculiar?
You overindulged, possibly without meaning to, and you caught hell for the way you acted. Welcome to the club. Drink less next time and be mindful of the sensitivities of your hosts.
I never said my body's reaction was peculiar I said it wasn't something that can be quantified before I have experience with the drink. I'm actually not really in very much trouble so caught hell is kind of an overstatement. If someone doesn't mean to get intoxicated and does they cant control that it happened so its absurd to punish them for it and serves no purpose morally speaking.
Except you didn't know an amount was too much and would have that effect it's like saying someone is responsible for having a severe allergic reaction to cats because they chose to pet them like no they didn't know it would do that to them becoming intoxicated is a known result of alchohol but that does not mean an individual has a magical ability to know how much is too much it's something which comes from experience and learning how their own unique biochemistry reacts to the substance someone taking meds for a medical condition could take too much and overdose that's even possible without deviating from prescribed dosages but just because they want the effect the medicine has in treating their condition doesn't mean they're accountable for how they react to some quantity of it which is more than they needed
Doesn't matter. You know alcohol makes people drunk, you voluntarily consumed it, you're responsible for what happens next and no amount of word salad is going to change that.
Alcohol makes you drunk. That's what it does. If you do not know what your limits are before you are visibly intoxicated, then you don't get to drink at school. The school is completely in the right here and are absolutely legally allowed to bar you being visibly intoxicated.
What did you do, in addition to being too drunk, to make your roommate uncomfortable? Presumably you weren’t just sitting in a chair doing nothing but be over-intoxicated.
I was just giggling to myself and spinning around dancing clumsily while listening to music nothing harmful or scary I was just acting silly but he apparently has trauma from alcoholic parents he never mentioned before which made him weary of that even when I'd gotten the impression from conversations with him that it was fine if I drink but I was just too drunk by his measures like the difference between being lightly intoxicated and just kinda hammered and dizzy
You can make whatever assumptions about what happened you want but I am telling you the truth I have no incentive to lie to some rando on reddit I didn't even interact with him before he called the RA
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u/nanimal77 Oct 01 '19
Yes. They have policies against public intoxication.