What's your superpower?
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Do you just mean whistling while breathing in and also while breathing out? I can do that, but there's a short break in the whistle when I switch the airflow direction.
Ie I can whistle a long song without pause, but I can't whistle a single sustained note without a short but noticeable break in the sustain when I switch from breathing out to breathing in and vice versa.
There is a hitch, but you can time it to cadence or the song's note changes. I mean indefinitely in the sense that I could theoretically go on for a whole day.
And no tonal shift in the sense that I can maintain the same note, with that slight pause, but without changing the intonation, strength, etc.
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Have you considered working night shifts?
I did, it was the final nail in the coffin for my sleep schedule
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i can touch my thumb to my wrist. Not terribly useful.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20362125
Weirdly flexible joints are a sign of this condition. I found out recently (at like 32) that I probably have a mild version of this. Mainly due to weird allergies and being able to bend/dislocate my fingers in weird ways.
May be worth checking into if you don't know already. Don't consider this a diagnosis. I am not your doctor, nor am I a doctor at all.
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I can move my scalp and wiggle my ears. Nobody else I've met seems to be able to.
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I can move my scalp and wiggle my ears. Nobody else I've met seems to be able to.
I can do this, in addition to being able to vibrate my eyes.
Can also wiggle each ear independently, though the scalp always moves along with them
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I honestly can't think of a damned thing I'm weirdly good at. Maybe that's my super power. Extreme averageness.
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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 also fall asleep very easily, but I cannot just get up to save my life. I envy that ability.
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.Yeah I think everyone used to be able to hear that. Elementary school videos all the kids could hear of the teacher left the TV on in our class rooms.
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SO that's what I keep hearing in those dame phone chargers.
I don't hear it all the time though, it sometimes starts happening and after that never stops. I believe it is that something breaks or is about to break that makes me suddenly able to hear it.
If someone more knowledge, knows what's up with them please tell.
Usually it's a bad capacitor
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I can play a spontaneous and convincing harmony on my violin to any song I hear. Sometimes I can even do this as I'm hearing a new song for the first time and trying to join in. I also suck at reading sheet music, so this could be a survival adaptation?
Generations of panicking string musicians have prepared you
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That's kind of cool, what does music look like to you? I assume it depends on the genre. What's your favourite?
This is the most accurate depiction of it I found so far. Although I don't see it like stuff around me, but more like a memory with "the minds eye", so to speak
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I can level paintings by hand, and usually on the first try. I still always double check with a level
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.I can hear CRTs too, but I haven't seen one in so long I don't know if I still can. It was so high pitched I've probably lost the ability to hear the frequency.
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Hah! Oh jesus, this will be a fun rabbithole for me to think about over the next few years.
Appreciate the warning, strangerHere's a redditor that describes it quite well:
Me. I have this. Happens several times a night. Sounds like a door slamming or a gunshot. The weirdest part is you also get the feeling that there was an impact, like that feeling when someone stomps near you. So itâs not just auditory itâs almost physical. Itâs a very strange thing and hard to describe because youâre always 3/4 of the way asleep when it happens. Iâve had it my whole life and always found it curious but have never questioned it out loud. I thought everyone had this until I saw âexploding head syndromeâ on the internet. Asked my parents and siblings, no, none of them have this and what the fuck am I talking about? Iâm in my goddamned 40s and thought this was normal.
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I can do this, in addition to being able to vibrate my eyes.
Can also wiggle each ear independently, though the scalp always moves along with them
Can most people not vibrate their eyes!?
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I can repressurize my ears without yawning, just by flexing a muscle. Even less useful, I can focus my eyes to different distances without using the finger trick, which comes in handy never.
I can do both of those things too, but my ear repressurising abilities aren't that strong, I usually have to either yawn or blow my closed nose.
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Out of all the ways I've ever been told I may have autism, this is certainly the most unexpected! At a certain point I should probably get a diagnosis.
In my family's defense, they did believe me as soon as they tested my hearing (after trying to trip me up several times, without success), so I never felt gaslit, I just felt proud of my hearing hahaha.
Yeah, I didn't mention this in my previous post but it was annoying, for sure. I would listen to this annoying noise, nobody would hear it, and I'd eventually discovered that somebody had left the TV on.
That phenomenon is also something I saw, but never really gave it much thought, I just assumed it was just something our eyes did
Well I'm glad you have/had a supportive family instead of a dysfunctional awful one like me.
I've been forced through an ever evolving series of mental health diagnoses by my family until after 20 years of the wrong meds for misdiagnosis... yeah turns out I am autistic and have ptsd/cptsd from my insanely narcissistic and manipulative and mentally unstable family.
Turns out once I get the fuck away from them, I can actually manage fairly well on my own. Oh and theres the whole got two bachelors degrees simultaneously and am very good at a multitude of tech/programming/db admin/data analysis type stuff, and I was making more money than my entire immediate family combined until their most recent attempt to declare me insane for disagreeing with their (objectively wrong) econonomic and political opinions (my degreees are in econ and poli sci, none of them have any degrees).
... Anyway, there's much more to an autism diagnosis than just the heightened hearing/seeing/touch sensations, but that is a fairly significant component of it.
There are some decent, long form, like 200+ question tests you can take online from actual medically endorsed autism awareness organizations... if you think you may actually have it, take one of those and then take your results to a psychologist.
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That one again?
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Back in university, I studied basically all day long, which was tiresome after long sessions of study, even if with friends. My great superpower is that it used to just take me ~10 seconds of resting with my eyes closed to feel a huuuuge boost of energy that lasted for 1-2 hours. After that boost expired, I just did it again.
Incredibly useful.
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I don't actually know if this is unusual, but I can smell when people have a respiratory illness, like a cold. It smells vaguely like the rooting hormone that you can get from a garden center.
