What's your superpower?
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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.)
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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!
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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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).
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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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.
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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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.
Being a slut is a superpower now?
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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 fingers/knuckles (and individual joints), wrists, back, neck, knees, toes, ankles (sometimes)
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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.
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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I can hold electric (cow) fences without getting shocked. Perfect for fence hopping through paddocks.
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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.)
It dominates everything else, few things are further away from water than (unfermented) cucumbers.
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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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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.
I have this, but for mushrooms....cooked mushrooms have the worst taste, the smell gets into the rest of the food and ruins it.
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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.
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.
Even one clock ticking in a room is enough to drive me mad. I'm not sure if having three would be better or worse. Adding some rhythm to it might help actually.
