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    I never stop being horny

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      In a room full of power supplies i was the only one able to find which one was still powering something, because apparently out of the ~20 people that tried before me, i was the only one that could hear the transformer whine.

      Also a general annoyance since i need to charge my phone in another room if i want to sleep without simulating tinnitus.

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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.

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      • stopjoiningwars@discuss.onlineS [email protected]

        I can whistle both ways, without a tonal shift. So I can basically breathe as I whistle and do it indefinitely. Full control, too, because of years of doing it.

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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.

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          I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

          Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

          You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

          You'd think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

          Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

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          So that has a name! Hahahaha There's no way I can memorise that, I'll keep call it "eeenergy" instead.

          Good to know what it is in case someone wants a serious answer.

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          • adam_y@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

            I can fall asleep, near instantly, at will.

            I call it my time machine function.

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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.

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              I could sometimes think what someone else is about to say right before they say it but I'm either delusional or really lucky

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                I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

                Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

                You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

                You'd think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

                Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

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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

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                  Try that with cheap mobile phone charges. They have an annoying coil whine.

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                  ... Wait. I assumed it was my extension cord keeping me up at night. I just learned to use it as white noise.

                  I swear my therapist says she sees no reason for me to be diagnosed as autistic

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                    i can touch my thumb to my wrist. Not terribly useful.

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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?

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                      I'm one of those. I really couldn't make my own recipes when I was homebrewing.

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                        In a room full of power supplies i was the only one able to find which one was still powering something, because apparently out of the ~20 people that tried before me, i was the only one that could hear the transformer whine.

                        Also a general annoyance since i need to charge my phone in another room if i want to sleep without simulating tinnitus.

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                        Found the youngest person.

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                          My boyfriend can smell when someone drank alcohol hours (or even days!) later. He seems to smell it in a person's sweat, so we suspect he senses some kind of metabolite.

                          As to me? In-person I seem to emit a comforting, trustworthy aura. Children and stray animals approach me like they just know that I'm a safe space for them. As a result, I've acquired quite a list of no-kill shelters in my phone. I also ended up working in children's therapy.

                          Adults who share my wavelength can also recognize it in me, and I can recognize it in them - we're drawn to each other in the same "inherently trustworthy" way. I suspect it's an aspect of neuro-divergence.

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                            I can also smell ants but only after I squish them.

                            My superpower is I can accurately pour one or one half cup of rice by sight and feel without going by the line on the measuring cup.

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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.

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                              It'd probably come in handy if you started sports shooting. I do Olympic-style air pistol shooting, and part of what I'm currently training on is focusing my eye on the forward sight, not the target.

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                                i can touch my thumb to my wrist. Not terribly useful.

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                                I can touch my thumb to my ankle!

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                                  I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

                                  Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

                                  You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

                                  You'd think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

                                  Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

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                                  My brother and I always enjoyed going out to the woods together when we were young because you couldn't hear everything humming out there. I still enjoy it for the same reason.

                                  My hearing isn't even that great because I've spent years around loud noises (industrial and concerts) without hearing protection. But I can still "feel" cheap chargers, bad screens, and florescent lights.

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                                    Synesthesia. I can see music. It's fun.

                                    Also, being resistant to pain killers. Not so fun (takes ages to get drunk, and I woke up 3 times during a surgery)

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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?

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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?

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                                        Is it the same muscle as when you do the rumbly ear thing?

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                                        The what?

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                                          I can focus my eyes to different distances

                                          That's not common? Tbh I never asked around if others can do it I just assumed it's normal.

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                                          Are you a chameleon?

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