Originally Posted by
zenchaser 
... I believe there is a genetic factor, whatever that gene is, I've got it, from the very beginning I didn't drink "right". My sister on the other hand doesn't have it, her personality doesn't change with her first drink and she can leave it alone after one or two. We came out of the same parents and the same house.
I think people choose to make different intensities of investment of time and effort to repeat that deep pleasurable experience of being under the influence of alcohol. I chose a high intensity. I gradually became infatuated with that pleasure. Whether some people experience it as a deeper pleasure than others is possible. (The Bach family chose to make great investments of time and effort to repeatedly compose and listen to their music. Maybe that's genetic, too. Maybe none of this is.) In AVRT it is a nonissue until it becomes AV. It's really quite easy for me to see if that idea becomes AV for myself.