What's your really pointless super power?

[MyTaupeHare]

I can tell, just from a photo of their face, if a person has a lisp.

I have yet to find a use for this undoubted super power.

What's your really useless super power?

Me too!

I can:

Find lost items by visualising the last time I saw them.

Count backwards in seconds to millisecond accuracy. This would be good in one of those game shows where the contestants have to guess exactly when eg 15 minutes has passed to stay in the game.

"See" words in my head so I know how to spell them

I would trade them all for the ability to sleep at will. That's an incredibly useful superpower of which I am very jealous.

I'm very good at singing along to most songs i have never heard. Within a couple of bars, and with the lyrics, i can sing along pretty convincingly as if i know the song.

It's never come in handy. It's not even a party trick because i don't go to parties.

I can also see words in my head and spell them this way! I visualise what I hear like this when people speak.

I can also wobble my eyes (as in, it looks like my irises are vibrating). This is genetic as my sibling and one DC can do it as well. It is also truly useless and as an adult, gives me a headache.

Terrible face blindness, though.

I can write clear, coherent emails even when I’m really drunk.

When a coin is spinning, I can nearly always tell which side it will land on.

When backpacking in my 20s, I started trying to guess what my latest roommates would look like based on the possessions they’d left on their bed and found out I was good at it. I guessed one woman would be a tall German with freckles and long red-hair in dreadlocks. I got everything right except for the dreadlocks.

I can kill a mumsnet thread. After i post people rarely bother to post again. I change my name often because i am
so embarrassed.

Hoping this one will break
the curse.

Also i can ruin any film or tv programme by predicting what comes next. Jeez I sound irritating. 😬

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That's so mean

I can smell impending illness on people, even though my sense of smell is otherwise is not great.

I can also knit super fast, which is a lot more useless than it sounds because I never finish things!

I have the super smell thing, I can smell illness before it happens but I can also super smell most things and indentify people and places just by smell
. My friends at school tested me once, they blindfolded me and I had to sniff an item of clothing I owned that had been taken home by each friend for 24 hours and left lying around and say whose house it had been to - I got 100%. They did the same after washing the item at their house and I got 100% again

Guesstimating weight when cooking, e.g if I need a 115 grams of butter, or 150g of chocolate, I'll cut what I think roughly is the right amount (based on the weight of the existing package) pop it on the scales and it's more often than not dead-on. When out, it's only 1g out. I feel sad no one will ever appreciate this! 😂

In magazines, where they have a page of "40 white skirts", "bags for spring", "nutcracker themed baubles" etc I am excellent at guessing thr most expensive without looking at the price.

I have a Spidey sense for when someone is in labour. I'm excellent at texting someone and then it turns out 24 hours later that they were about to give birth.
Also I'm quite good at guessing measurements by eye.

I can tell when a person has bad motives / is not to be trusted.
From a person who says: 'yeah, I'll do that phone call' (& you KNOW they won't)
to a major Fraudster I met in my first temp job (who I KNEW was a wrong 'un
though apparantly hundreds of other people have trusted over the years)

What I'm not so good at is hiding my knowledge of it, which can be a problem.

Lol. That was bad, but the curse is cleaarly broken!

You know when you yawn, sometimes your saliva accidentally sprays out? Or if you've eaten something sour? I can force out that saliva jet at will.

I can also smell if someone is about to come down with a bacterial infection- tonsillitis, ear, chest 24 to 48 hours before they get symptoms. I can't smell viral infections though.

I can sleep any time anywhere. It is great at night time as I never lie awake for hours and could always drop straight back off when the babies woke up. On the down side I am a terrible car passenger and have slept on all forms of public transport to the point of missing my spot. I dread ever being called for jury service as I have no idea how I would manage to stay awake and not jeopardise the trial.

I found a superpower. I am an easy sleeper who does not need much sleep.

Unfortunately my dcs also did not seem to need much sleep as babies. Luckily I could survive and be functional in a chronic sleep deprived state. I'd be able to drop back to sleep quickly at any chance.