I learned to identify poison ivy at a very early age. I seemed to be especially

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20. I've read that 1 in 3 people actually *is* immune to poison ivy.

Whether due to body chemistry, or perhaps oil-skin content. I have been around poison ivy as a child where other kids caught it and I didn't, but I'm still tentative around it. I have had one nasty case of what I believe was poison oak, but that required getting snapped in the eye with a branch where it actually scratched the skin of my face and the swelling around my eye required a steroid shot and a followup Medrol dose pack to make sure it went down.

Conversely, my father is RIDICULOUSLY vulnerable to plant-based irritation, in fact I'd suspect he might have an additional allergy to poison ivy beyond normal. I've always seen people get red itchy rash, he develops horrible red blotches and enormous weeping scaly scabs that I've never seen on anyone else nor gotten myself despite being exposed to it likely when he has been.

I wonder if this lil' dude might have busted his own skin-based immunity by rubbing it in his eyes.

I guess that's why the Darwin Awards exist.