What's your superpower?
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Books. I own probably a thousand physically, have hundreds of thousands of PDFs and epubs between my laptop and NAS.
The superpower is that I have a book “sense.” I know about where each book I own is - my shelves are not organized in any meaningful way, because I’m ADHD and will just pull one out to look at something and reshelve it. I’m not at home right now, but I can imagine my shelves and stacks in my head - can tell you where Palestine and the Palestinians or The Forty Days of Musa Dagh or the beautiful English translation of the 左传 or House Made of Dawn or the book on Scottish coins i thrifted a few days ago all are.
I can look at almost any given strangers bookshelf and recognize/have read at least one of their books. I navigate libraries by feel and don’t need to look up books.
I also read inhumanly fast I think, and have somewhat of an eidectic memory for text. It’s been almost twenty years since I read The Great Gatsby but a student brought it up and I was able to do a 45 minute lecture on it, with quotes from memory.
I’m also prodigious at sex. I’ll read more books in a week than most do over their life, and I’ll also fuck more people in that week than most do over their life.
That's a double-brag, wow. (Very impressive)
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I'm really, really good at peeling oranges with my bare hands (or at least I used to be in grade school when all my friends would make me do it for them). The problem is, I hate the taste of oranges so I never use this power.
Dude same. It’s really good for if you ever go to prison. You’ll sell so much hooch.
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I thought everyone could do this. That's a super power?!
Not everyone!
Check out the Function->Voluntary Control section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
I tried to find stats on what proportion of people could do it, with claims of "a small number" through to "over half the population".
This study says 55% in the general population. It's also interesting as it's exploring the ability to use this voluntary rumble as a control method for assistive technology.
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The what?
Check out the Function->Voluntary Control section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
Next time you yawn, listen for a low rumbling sound. Some people can do that voluntarily. Apparently 55% of the general population, but many people think you could train almost anyone to do it with some practice.
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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 just learned from another thread that mine is... fantasizing smells and flavors, and being able to mentally combine them to know what two ingredients will taste like together before I combine them. Apparently not everyone can do this?
I can do this. I'm also good at trying food at a restaurant, then recreating the flavors at home.
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Are you a tetrachromat?
I had no idea what that was before reading your comment.
I have now taken a few online tests that indicates I might be. BUT I did it with just regular screens. My phone and computer screens are not professional so I can't guarantee any accuracy. I might try to find a professional test later.
Thanks for telling me about this!
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Makes sense, I've done food and wine training for years.
You are the Iron Man of these already mundane Avengers lol
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I can also fall asleep very easily, but I cannot just get up to save my life. I envy that ability.
We need to learn the fusion dance, we would be unstoppable! (To be clear, I can wake up and be 'functional' whenever, doesnt mean I get good rest nor wake up happy)
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I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.
I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.
That's it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.
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I can't stay angry; I have multi-sensory aphantaisa, this comes with not being able to re-experience emotions.
I remember that something made me angry, but I can't relive the emotion. It lets me dispassionately examine the past to see what made me angry and thus work through the trigger and try to reduce it in the future.
There is the downside to this, it is on all emotion, so I also can't re-experience happy emotions either.
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I have never been, nor seem to be able to get motion sickness. No seasickness either. I can read books on all sorts of moving vehicles, and I love roller coasters. Whip me around upside down in pitch dark at 60mph and I'll just call it a good time. My husband says I am squandering my powers because I can play as much of whatever motion intense VR game as I want, but I just end up playing Beat Saber most of the time.
Same, and if I’m nauseous from a hangover or food poisoning/flu motion settles my stomach.
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Usually it's a bad capacitor
So my theory of suddenly making noises means broken don't use, is good.
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I can crack my elbows like knuckles by just extending my arms. My brother can do it too, but I've never met anyone else who can do it.
I can do it too. Also my neck, and my knees, and my ankles, and my toes.
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Does ADHD count? As it has a few superpowers you just can’t turn them on when you want sometimes. It also comes with some kryptonite.
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I can do it too. Also my neck, and my knees, and my ankles, and my toes.
I can do my knees and toes too, but not consistently. Neck and ankles I cannot. I can crack my wrist though.
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I can do my knees and toes too, but not consistently. Neck and ankles I cannot. I can crack my wrist though.
I just cracked my wrist now, but I haven't been able to do it before!
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I just cracked my wrist now, but I haven't been able to do it before!
How did you do it? I do it by pushing the base of my thumb down and backwards, and I feel the crack right at the base of my wrist towards the side of the thumb. I suspect I'm actually cracking my thumb, since I'm pushing on my thumb's metacarpal, but I feel it in my wrist.
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How did you do it? I do it by pushing the base of my thumb down and backwards, and I feel the crack right at the base of my wrist towards the side of the thumb. I suspect I'm actually cracking my thumb, since I'm pushing on my thumb's metacarpal, but I feel it in my wrist.
Bend wrist downward to charge, bend upward slowly to crack (this all happened by accident)
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I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.
I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.
That's it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.
That's really impressive, since to be cucumber mostly just tastes like water. (This could just be where I'm getting my cucumber, though.)
