Do you have a unique skill which is absolutely useless??

[AutumnAlmanack]

If I wake up during the night, I am able to tell the time almost exactly before I look at the clock! I don't know how I do it! Such a completely useless skill but I thought it might be a fun topic for a dull Boxing Day!

@ShinySquirrel

I can close my nostrils over. I can also open and close them very quickly.

I can do this! I haven't ever met anyone else who can! 🤛

Sadly not me but my son who has autism
Can immediately tell anyone the day of the week they were born on from their date of birth.

Many have googled to check and he’s never wrong

@Ibane thank you

@astoundedgoat I am sensitive to the change in electrical charge in the atmosphere I guess. Tbf it makes me feel quite unwell . Odd feeling in my head, slurred speech, excessive blinking that sort of thing. But I am accurate. I have confidently said not today when the weather has forecast a chance of storm and been triggered before a storm hits.

Many years ago I was at an Epilepsy Action meeting during a thunderstorm and fairly new to it. The others were all people living with epilepsy or their carers. Several people were asking me if I was alright? As the meeting finished a lady grabbed me and prevented me leaving the building. So thankful because if she hadn’t I would have had a massive seizure in pouring rain. For a long while I stupidly thought, how did she know? Then it dawned on me, it takes one to know one.

If I talk to someone on the phone I know what colour hair they’ve got, even if it’s dyed.

Dh doesn’t believe me 🤷🏻‍♀️ Meh.

@beccahamlet

I can do the telling the time thing too. Often to the minute. Sometimes a minute or 2 out. How do we do it? I can also write in a mirror image. So if you hold it up to a mirror you can read it as normal. Apparently Leonardo da Vinci could do it. It is common in people with autism, but I am NT.

I can do mirror writing too! I remember as a child writing normally with my right hand, and at the same time writing the same thing backwards with my left.

I can parallel park really well and it has the added bonus of winding DH up a treat (as he can’t!)