What's your superpower?
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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?
As far as I'm aware, this is a skill that can be learned by training your palate
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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.
I don't think being a Disney Princess counts as a minor power
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My super power? Invisible to government bureaucracy. Every time I fill out my absentee voter reg, I get a response back telling me I forgot to fill out my birthday. On my last one, I took photos of the filled out form. I've never been assigned jury duty. When I go to the BMV it takes hours because they forget to put my number in the ticket system. (This has happened at multiple BMVs, across multiple states) and it's not like I'm being an asshole or anything, I just get my number and wait patiently for my name to come up on the board, and after seeing the entire room cycle out once or twice I check in with the staff and they're like "weird, your number isn't in the system" despite me holding the paperwork/ticket with my call number on it.
My wife is a super taster/smeller. Like to an extreme level. She can't eat bell peppers because they are too spicy. ( They do produce capsaicin, but so little that they are a scoville rating of 0), she can tell if I steal a sip of her drink, because she can taste the difference on her straw/cup. When we make pasta or mashed potatoes, she knows if I put a little sprinkle of salt in the water (were talking a pinch of salt for maybe 6-7 cups of water), and she can smell that much salt before she even tastes the food. When I eat out for lunch at work, she can not only tell me where I went to eat, but she call tell me what I ordered and if I made any alterations to the order. And no, she doesn't just know what I like to order, I try new stuff for my lunch all the time. The craziest one was when we had a staff lunch, and she was like "Jimmy johns, roast beef, with mustard and hot peppers mix" and I was like "WTF" and she said "that's what you said for lunch, please change your clothes and take a shower". Here's the rub... That was my first time trying JJs roast beef.
Maybe I'm just a filthy stinky person and don't know it.
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I subconsciously hear GIFs and silent videos. On repeating GIFs, the same sound plays over and over. Some GIFs sound satisfying and hypnotic and keep me entranced for a long time, while others are loud and obnoxious and make me scroll away from them immediately.
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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.
