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What's your superpower?

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  • S [email protected]

    Are you a tetrachromat?

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    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! šŸ™‚

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    • N [email protected]

      Makes sense, I've done food and wine training for years.

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      You are the Iron Man of these already mundane Avengers lol

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      • S [email protected]

        I can also fall asleep very easily, but I cannot just get up to save my life. I envy that ability.

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        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.

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              Same, and if I’m nauseous from a hangover or food poisoning/flu motion settles my stomach.

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              • jwbananas@lemmy.worldJ [email protected]

                Usually it's a bad capacitor

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                So my theory of suddenly making noises means broken don't use, is good.

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                • baduhai@sopuli.xyzB [email protected]

                  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.

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                  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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                    • deltawingdragon@sh.itjust.worksD [email protected]

                      I can do it too. Also my neck, and my knees, and my ankles, and my toes.

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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.

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                      • baduhai@sopuli.xyzB [email protected]

                        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 just cracked my wrist now, but I haven't been able to do it before!

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                        • deltawingdragon@sh.itjust.worksD [email protected]

                          I just cracked my wrist now, but I haven't been able to do it before!

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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.

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                          • baduhai@sopuli.xyzB [email protected]

                            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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                            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.

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                              That's really impressive, since to be cucumber mostly just tastes like water. (This could just be where I'm getting my cucumber, though.)

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                              • M [email protected]

                                Have you tried doing it without counting?

                                Do you increment in 1's? Does it work if you count in 2's or 3's?

                                Science it!

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                                I do none of those things. I touch the wart with the tip of my right index finger and I declaritively count upward from 1 for each wart. Within 4-6 weeks all the warts will be gone. My great aunt did it for me when I was a child and then I tried it and it worked for me too. I've done it probably a dozen times with 100% success rate.

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                                • blorps@lemmy.worldB [email protected]

                                  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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                                  Same. I'm about two days ahead of anyone else I know. If it's even slightly off, I'll start retching. I'm a cook, so it isn't actually completely useless.

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                                  • B [email protected]

                                    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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                                    This is me with Taco Bell's shredded lettuce. If I get a burrito, I'll know there's a piece of lettuce in it two or three bites before I get to it.

                                    Like I love lettuce, spinach, kale, all those leafy greens. But I swear they spray it with artificial lettuce flavoring or something.

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                                    • A [email protected]

                                      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 ā€œsense.ā€ 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.

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                                      Being a slut is a superpower now?

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                                      • baduhai@sopuli.xyzB [email protected]

                                        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.

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                                        I can do fingers/knuckles (and individual joints), wrists, back, neck, knees, toes, ankles (sometimes)

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                                        • D [email protected]

                                          I envy you so much. Yours is an actual superpower. My ability is the opposite, I can wake up from an alarm no matter the circumstance, slept only 3 hours while completely drunk? Still wake up instantly and start doing things, I've never missed an alarm in my life.

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                                          I can sleep at will and wake up at will. Like I am traveling early so I have to wake at 4:30am no problem!

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