..I should ask my mom if poison ivy affects her. pretty sure it does, though, and my allergies are worse. maybe I'm first in the line. too bad I don't have a kid to find out.

I remember at some summer jobs way back as a teen that I would literally sit in patches of poison ivy at times to eat lunch, because I didn't care to check and just found a spot in the ditch that looked comfy

now, wild parsnip blisters after getting sap on you and not cleaning it before exposure to sunlight... that shit is gross

I recently realized I'm not affected by it either, for nearly 40 years I just thought I was great at identifying it and just careful. My wife got into it a few years back and it was horrible for her (big welts and oozing stuff, pretty gross), when she went to the doctor they were like, "Yep, that's poison ivy, here is some cream and a shot, be more careful"; so I went out and cleared all of it I could find and learned how to properly identify it.

I still try to wear gloves because I've heard that you can eventually start having a reaction but I have debated the idea of using an aerosolized form of the oil as an emergency oh shit button if an unidentified masked person tries to pull me out my car.