What's your superpower?
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If there's some important time by when I need to wake up (flight/train to catch, or waking up to travel by car or go for an appointment) I wake up around 5-10 minutes before my alarm. Like, always. I wish I was joking.
I am a very heavy sleeper. But I have no idea what happens to my internal clock at moments like those.
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I have a few different versions of synesthesia.
The most prominent one is that is see words and letters in color. If you tell me your name I can more or less paint your name like a weird color code. Whenever it is brought up it's almost like a fun little party trick where people ask me what color their names are and I tell them.
Spoiler alert, though: if your name has A or S in it, it will most likely have red in the mix. M and N are differnet variations of green. Some letters are dominant and others are submissive so depending on the word they either pain other letters a specific color or take color from dominant letters. E is a submissive letter. Tends to be a pale yellow, but will change color depending on the letters it is put together with. D is a weird dominant letter that changes color all the time. Either black or a deep purple. Completely depends on the word.
Numbers have colors too.
0 - white
1 - black
2 - pale yellow
3 - sky blue
4 - red
5 - dark brown
6 - black
7 - yellow
8 - dark purple
9 - orange
Random names and their colors:
Jack = black and red, white and black again.
Stephanie = red, yellow, green and yellowish white
Peter = gold and black
Mary = forest green, red, black and orangy yellow
Robert = black, white black
Lily = white, silver, yellow like sunshine
William = black, white, red, forest green
Karen = black, red, black, a sprinkle of yellow and spring green.
Russell = black, golden yellow, red, yellow
Evelyn = sunshine yellow, white and spring green.
Etc etc
To me, pretty names are not just pretty if they sound good, they also have to have beautiful and unique color combinations. Most names tend to have red and green color combos for me so whenever yellow, blue, purple or pink appear in a name I really like it. In my country there's a man's name Åge which isn't the prettiest sounding name, but to me it is so friggin beautiful because it's one of the rarest color combinations I have in my head: dusty blue, morning pink, white, misty overlay and a bit of golden brown. The letter Å is the prettiest letter to me as it is this rare double color of blue and pink and it is a dominant letter so whenever it appears in a name or a word, it is like a breath of fresh air among all the greens and blacks and reds.
If I get drunk, I can picture colors for different instruments. Drums, wind, and string instruments are varying shades of red, yellow and orange depending on pitch. Synthesizers are always cool colors depending on their sound. The more artificial they sound, the further away they are from yellow or red for purple and green synthesizers) Human voices are pink if high pitched and red if low pitched.
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Probably odorous house ants (sometimes also called sugar ants). I'm fairly sensitive to their scent, myself and recall being in tears as a small child ~6 because one of them walked across my finger and no amount of washing would get the smell off. I'm not a fan.
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I have a blurry photographic memory.
What I mean is that I can remember where/what an item looks like but can’t read it. This was especially lame and stressful in nursing school because during a test I could recall exactly where in the textbook or PowerPoint slide the answer was, but couldn’t “read” it from said memory. Stuff like “it was in the yellow shaded an the lower inner quarter of the page, second and third billet points” or “halfway down the page, highlighted in pink, and next to it was a graphic of the Krebs cycle”
Not as helpful as you might think.I have a watered down version of this, but I'm a lawyer so it's very very valuable. If I get a question I might not know the answer to, if I've read it somewhere I usually know roughly where to go back to get it. And since lawyers mostly look things up instead of trying to memorize everything, a powerful "indexing" memory is valuable in the profession. At least in my practice.
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I think I may have the opposite, at least some times. If I think about it too much I'll feel the emotion way to strongly which is a problem itself.
I imagine that would be really annoying, like how do you process unhelpful emotions; if when you think about them they start back up?
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wait i'm a supertaster and i fucking hate ants, if that's the scent i can do it too. well i could if i didn't shitbomb the bathroom so often. but you may have legitimately helped me in my lifelong war against the ants (i'm farsighted i cannot see them until i sit down and they crawl up and bite my jibblies thank you)
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now, regarding my superpower
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I'm really good at smelling food and when it's about to go off. If my nose even picks up a hint of rot that's all I can smell. It's really bad right now because our fridge died so everything smells like carcass in the house right now (even though it's gone).
we grow a medium pot full of lemon balm every season, and we'll grab a handful of that, some rosemary, and some mint, throw it in a pot with some water and let it simmer for half an hour for some homemade potpourri. it's just a coverup, but it's pleasant.
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My super power is that I always know the difference between a fart and a shit before it exits.
yes but can you always do something about it, that is the real superpower
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One time I had to wait in line behind this guy who had a very strong metallic odor, it was making me sick. I’ve smelled it a few times since and recently smelled it on my mother. Not sure if it’s a drug. Probably not fear. Very interesting though.
there are a few diseases (mostly in the cold/flu family) that i can smell. it's something in the sweat.
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I can count almost perfect seconds. Most people think they can count seconds until they try to prove it.
Like, give me a stopwatch. I can count seconds to within an average of .05 of a second.
I can do this consistently over a long period of time, i gave up counting when i tested it.
It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.
After many years of hearing these rhythms and noticing the different rhythms that would be made as we changed the batteries over time, i ended up being able to tap the rhythm out on a table/in my head etc and now its just ingrained into my head.
taTA ta... taTA ta... taTA ta...
Absolutely useless.
My resting heart rate is very close to 60bpm, so I can use that as a reasonable timer to "wait ten seconds." If I'm up and moving around or even playing an intense video game it's no go but I can do it sometimes.
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I aquired this superpower trough habits, but i can intuitively find the north.
Apart from that, well, I'm just myself
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I aquired this superpower trough habits, but i can intuitively find the north.
Apart from that, well, I'm just myself
I keep trying to learn that, but keep forgetting. ADHD is rough. X.x
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Being a slut is a superpower now?
Let’s just say I put the “power” in “power bottom.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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My sister and I were talking about benign superpowers and decided the X-Men probably have someone like a band director with a superpower like perfect pitch who watches after the school while everyone else is off adventuring.
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I keep trying to learn that, but keep forgetting. ADHD is rough. X.x
You have ADHD too? I know what it is, and trying to maintain routines is hell of a hard task.
To be used to do it, you must not learn it the duolingo way (you will forget anyways, even with reminders), but actually find use and interest in everyday life and in your passions.
Get some interest in how wind works (which directions do wind take and why), when there's wind, you will see it’s often the same directions, and you can try to guess its orientation by that.
Also, astronomy (looking at the night sky, you will be used to find the polar star at the same place and will notice that planets always align on the sun path, rising at the east and setting at the west).
You must not learn it, but immerse yourself in it to the point it becomes a secondary nature.
(Yeah this method worked for me for languages and philosophy, which i really sucked at back then, but looking at what i wrote it’s pretty generic, so i hope it at least helped you a little ^^')
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oh wait i got another one, my tinnitus it a pretty constant pitch, and i can measure my intervals offa it so i got perfect pitch. i can't tell you what note it is (except for b3, i hit that one perfectly every time because of this one ave maria) but it takes me a minute. the note is e11 or e12 i can't remember which anymore
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I can count almost perfect seconds. Most people think they can count seconds until they try to prove it.
Like, give me a stopwatch. I can count seconds to within an average of .05 of a second.
I can do this consistently over a long period of time, i gave up counting when i tested it.
It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.
After many years of hearing these rhythms and noticing the different rhythms that would be made as we changed the batteries over time, i ended up being able to tap the rhythm out on a table/in my head etc and now its just ingrained into my head.
taTA ta... taTA ta... taTA ta...
Absolutely useless.
Give this guy a wood block!
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I guess we are only talking about the oddly specific ones so.
I like acidic foods so much, that I drank a cup of vinegar once, and survived.
My teeth are also weirdly resistant to decay.
Mine were too, zero cavities at 37 years old with mediocre tooth care, I didn't even floss. Then I moved somewhere they don't fluoridate the water and I also went vegan. No fluoride + low calcium = 3 cavities in less than 3 years. Needless to say I now floss, brush with a fluoridated toothpaste, and take calcium supplements.
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I have a watered down version of this, but I'm a lawyer so it's very very valuable. If I get a question I might not know the answer to, if I've read it somewhere I usually know roughly where to go back to get it. And since lawyers mostly look things up instead of trying to memorize everything, a powerful "indexing" memory is valuable in the profession. At least in my practice.
Fuck, I knew I chose wrong.
