What special ability do you posess that most people don’t have?
I have an uncanny ability to figure out the optimal size container to use to store leftovers. Kneel before my power!
He is the chosen one!
I am your nemesis, I inevitably dirty several containers trying to find the right size.
We can fight when I am done doing the dishes.
Lol, my wife just ends up using an obscenely large container for the tiniest bit of left overs.
But can you find the correct lid to that Tupperware?
I can tell whether a food has milk in it simply by eating it and waiting a few minutes.
It’s kind of a shitty superpower, to be honest.
LMAO
This is similar to mine. I can detect the presence of nickel in an alloy at a certain concentration by how much it makes my skin tingle. Prolonged contact will result in a rash.
Took me a while to realize that this is actually a real life superpower, but - I can fix things. Throw it away? Meh… Repairing, upcycling? Bring it on!
Me too! The older I get the more I find fixing things is not as common as I thought. Just the other day I was at a friend’s place and they were struggling opening a window. Five minutes later it was fixed. The sash spring fell off, super simple fix. They were cursing at it for months without any effort to figure it out, but that’s most people it seems.
This yes! Also being able to do something after watching someone do it is a good skill?
Of course! That just show’s that you’re very good at extracting information of other’s explanations and are able to understand the nature of things. Very valuable!
I just suck at learning things from books or other forms of text though
I can cook minute rice in 55 seconds.
Being able to lose anything I put my hands on. Not a good power, but it’s all I got.
Come over here and put those magic hands on my belly fat, you wizard!
With great power comes great responsibility
Being unphased by traumatic situations. At least right away. If a loved one dies or there’s a terrorist attack, I feel nothing until usually months go by. It then hits me randomly and I get as upset as you’d expect one to at the beginning.
I have a similar reaction to things. Unfortunately, it often causes people to look at me to figure shit out in the moment. Just because I’m not freaking out doesn’t mean I know a damn thing about the correct course of action right now.
I get a different reaction. People see me as disturbed or heartless, I get “What is wrong with you” and “Don’t you feel anything right now?” One time I responded with honesty. Bad call brother. I try to look upset, but it probably resembles the same level of concern one might show when trying to determine the perpetrator of an especially offensive fart.
That’s rough, though imagining your description is quite funny.
Welcome to the heartless club!
This is a totally normal response. Check out the book The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno if you want to learn more!
I forget the plots of movies and books fairly fast, and I’m able to enjoy them “for the first time” many times.
OMG! I thought I was the only one.
That’s amazing! I always wished there was a pill or something that could give me amnesia for a fee hours so I could enjoy something for the first time again.
I know when a timer or alarm I set is about to go off. This sometimes works for timers I thought I set, so it’s kind of useful.
For alarms, It means I wake up a minute before the alarm
Creepily excellent memory…although only for things that are pointless or people would really rather I didn’t remember.
I can hang things straight without using measurement tools. I just ‘sense’ it is straight. A nice power to have.
Bit embarrassed to admit this, but I used to seriously believe I had the ability to read woman’s minds.
I used to walk into a party/bar and instantly know if I was going to have sex with a particular woman. This was virtually infallible. (Disclaimer: This didn’t happen every time I went to a party, nor did I necessarily choose the woman, but every time I felt that feeling I was right.)
Turns out many years later I realized I just had a good understanding of woman’s body language. And could tell when a woman found me attractive enough, and was horny enough, to let me pick her up.
FTR I do feel foolish for ever thinking I had some supernatural ability with women, but I was somewhat attractive and charming, so that went to my head.
I used to walk into a party/bar and instantly know if I was going to have sex with a particular woman.
I can do that too. It’s very easy for me. The answer is always the same: no, no they are not
To most of the men this is a super power so don’t sell yourself short
I don’t cry when I chop onions. If I’m chopping dozens of them, everyone needs to get out of the kitchen because the air will get potent (but I won’t notice).
I thought I had this superpower, but it turns out I never chopped enough onions. I got a job in a restaurant and I couldn’t even keep my eyes open near the onions.
I have really good reflexes for catching things that are falling. I don’t even have to think about it - if something is falling near me that’s catchable, my hand will just reach out and catch it 9/10 times. Seems I can override it for dangerous things like kitchen knives. Most of the time, nobody ever sees it happen, so it’s also a hidden talent, lol.
Are you me?
One time I was DM-ing for a group of friends, it was late and we were drunk. One of my friends had left a glass behind my dm screen were I couldn’t see it (but I knew it was there). I don’t remember exactly how, but he bumped the screen and the cup fell from the table
Somehow my hand jumped in an arc going over the screen and under the table to be exactly were the glass was on its way to the floor and I catch it
It’s one of my favorite memories
Rolled a nat 20 on that one for sure.
Not really a super power, but I’m deaf since birth, hearing aids since 3 months old, and I can read lips from ten feet away, which means that I can follow a conversation perfectly fine bc I can read lips, while everyone else has to have someone shouting in their ear from a foot away in noisy environments.
Okay, story time? Have you ever read lips to a conversation and learned some juicy gossip?!
Haha, if I have, it never made it into my memory. But I did have an FM system for school as a kid. Sort of like a microphone the teacher wore around their neck that streamed the audio directly to my hearing aids. The signals could go far. If the teacher forgot to mute it or turn it off, I’d hear the sounds of them going to the bathroom down the hallway. Which was super irritating when I was trying to focus on my notes.
Very accurate sense for when shit is about to hit the fan and it’s time to GTFO.
…comes from having PTSD and a whole lot of trauma, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.
Saaaaame. And the ability to read people like a book. Coworker didn’t believe me. Warned him, still held back, he was a little terrified.
