I seem to .ha.ve a super power - do you have one

[sashh]

So yesterday my carer and I were discussing him getting a kindle. I have 2 working kindles and I suggested he get them both to look at the features / size / weight.

He was convinced they were identical so, to solve the issue he weighed them both.

I was right. One kindle is 3g lighter than the other.

So I seem to have a superpower of noticing when things are slightly lighter/heavier.

What power(s) do you have?

BoxyLoxy 😥
I hope that’s not true.

I can walk up to wall / door with my eyes close and stop before I hit it a I can feel it there without touching it.

I can weigh people up as soon as I meet them. I'm always spot on, never wrong. I'll meet someone for the first time, I'll think they are a narcissistic, kind, devious, etc and I'm always right. They turn-out to be exactly how I thought.

I'm very good at estimating the number of people in a crowd.

It comes from years of giving presentations to large audiences.

I can tell when a woman is on her period, and when she's very early stages of pregnancy (often before she knows herself).

How, seriously, how?

I can, without fail, pick the one item on a menu the restaurant/cafe/takeaway won't have available, so much so, I always have a back-up option to fall back on.

My superpower is despite being very large, I am entirely invisible. Even my emails are invisible

Well I have seen your post here, others did to so you’re not invisible here. Hope you’re ok.

I've just remembered another.

I'm a mosquito magnet.

I ALWAYS get bitten.

I spent 2 weeks in Mauritius with an ex, we shared a bed and slept under a net. I was bitten every night and he wasn't.

He stayed on another week and only after I left did he get bitten.

Oh goodness, I have the mozzy magnet too

I can open jars and bottles that other people (men included) can’t open. I know I’ll lose this ability as I age and lose strength, but it’s been very satisfying over the years - particularly the time I opened a bottle of water at a meeting for our CEO’s second in command.

I have my own internal alarm clock that wakes me at the time I say before I go to sleep. It never lets me down so I never ever set an alarm.

I can, without fail, pick the one item on a menu the restaurant/cafe/takeaway won't have available, so much so, I always have a back-up option to fall back on.

Me too! Now I ask 'what haven't you got on the menu today?' before I choose.

I have never been a teacher but I have a teacher look. Badly behaved children in the supermarket will suddenly behave like angels after a couple of seconds. I used it in a restaurant the other day. Four children messing about, shouting and running round their table, parents too busy drinking to care. I gave them all the look without the parents seeing and never heard another sound.

I'm actually quite nice, not scary, but I think I look as though I have authority.

I can see the funny side.
It's been very helpful.

Some of these are a bit spooky! As some PPs have mentioned, I too have the spatial awareness gift, can always judge what will fit into what space, from tupperwares in the kitchen to packing for house moves etc. I also know what the time is, accurate to within 2/3 minutes. Haven't worn a watch for years.

I'm very good at the 'level' and the 'weight' things and also 'being in the middle when you hang a picture without measuring'. I'm surprisingly good at guessing, as in when my husband says 'guess how much is fancy-ass bike weighs'. Someday I will take over the world.

I would love some of these. It's nice to know so many people have the smellability. My tiny nose is bloody amazing, my husband's nose only seems to work part-time. He is amazing a spot the difference, I'm sure there's a job out there this would be useful in.

I have another weird super power, of blending in in foreign countries. People think I’m local until I open my mouth. I don’t think it would work everywhere in the world but it happened even in Hong Kong, I’m a very pale Scot.

I think I have a better than average memory for faces but nothing that rises to the level of superpower⚡

I can feel people’s and animals body heat from quite a distance.
I can smell is someone has the flu or cold (including myself) it is a specific smell.

I think the smelling disease thing is interesting, I remember radio programme about a woman who could smell when people were going to to develop Parkinson's disease

I have an amazing sense of smell, I'm partially deaf so I think my nose compensates! This reached ridiculous levels when I was pregnant and I pulled up outside my house in the car and could smell the cheese and onion crisps that my DH had eaten.

I just mentioned this on another thread but I can smell when people are about to be unwell. A close friend was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago and I'd known for a while that her scent had changed, but never got up the nerve to tell her in case I was wrong.

I can smell it on the DC, on other friends and recently on a woman I work with. I knew she was going to be unwell after working with her for the day and a couple of days later an email came in saying she'd been signed off long-term for illness. It's creepy, but helps with the DC.

I am extremely good at getting into other people's viewpoints. It's hard to explain but I can just tell their motivation most of the time, or if they are unable to do something I can tell why. I spend much if my life in amazement that other people are misjudging situations and taking offence etc when to me it's blindingly obvious that the person didn't intend it that way, or that person X wasn't choosing to behave in a certain way in order to upset person Y or whatever. Most people seem extremely poor at decentring their thoughts in this way.

I remember the miniature of conversations of no import from decades ago.

I also am terrible with faces. I have been in so many excruciatingly awful conversations with someone who is beginning to realise I don’t know who they are. If I finally am able to place them, memories of all conversations I ever had with them come flooding back. I can ask them whether they ever made up with their cousin for the baby-name stealing issue of 15 years ago or ask about how their rescue beagle from 9 years ago is going. This superpower saves my arse.