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    In that case, I wasn’t interested and just felt immense pity at the situation, so I completely ignored it and talked to another coworker about our SOs at the group lunch table with him.

    I’ve definitely noticed it on job interviews I’ve held and first dates/relationship milestones. In the former, I just ignore it, and in the latter, I do keep it in mind.

    I have to shower after I have something like a job interview though, because it’s not a pleasant smell.

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    Cool. My sense of smell isn't that good, so it's kind of curious to know some people are that sensitive.

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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.

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      I'm the same way. It makes my memory recall interesting. I remember the colors first and then translate them to numbers or letters. Made a college job as a receptionist interesting.

      I also 100% agree on names must look appealing by color. We have different colors, but the similarities are stark.

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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.

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          i can breathe in strong winds

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          But can you expel the winds back out with the same strength?

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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.

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            This sounds exactly like me. Drinking vinegar, loving acidic foods, no cavities.

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            • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

              My super power is that I always know the difference between a fart and a shit before it exits.

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              That's a powerful 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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                big same

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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.

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                  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.

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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.

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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.

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                        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
                            i give good hugs

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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).

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                              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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                              • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                                My super power is that I always know the difference between a fart and a shit before it exits.

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                                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.

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                                  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.

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                                    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

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                                        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?

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                                          Let’s just say I put the “power” in “power bottom.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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