Name 1 thing that you think makes you secretly better/cooler than everyone else (lighthearted)

[Chicky6]

Just for fun!
One thing that I feel just makes me superior than most is that I am a twin mum. Can’t really explain it except that I feel like superwoman for growing 2 babies myself at once

one thing that will make me think you are cooler than most of if you’re left handed, no idea why, I just know I always wanted to be left handed when I was a kid😂

I can pop my ears at will - my Eustachian tubes are under voluntary control (they're smooth muscle, so not supposed to be). It means I never get earache on planes. It also came in handy when scuba diving where popping ears to equalise pressure is important - the scuba instructor was rather baffled and said I was the only person he'd ever met who could do it. DC1 is also able to to this.

A PP stated they can smell death - I can smell and almost taste illness, and I am always right, animal or human. I have been so right so often, I don't think it's a coincidence.

I have managed to push for cancer screening in cases where there was nothing observably wrong, and even when the individual thought they were absolutely fine and strongly believed I was creating a fuss for nothing (one person really fell out with me). One very early stomach cancer was detected, and one very early breast cancer, as well as a plethora of other illnesses over the years.

I know when my animals are unwell or in pain (when not observable, obvs) I can smell the changes in their skin/fur and breath.

I can sometimes, by the bitter, sour or sweet smell, say where the issue lies or the seriousness of the issue, but not always. It's more of an overall 'there is something wrong' to a graded 'there is something seriously wrong' scent profile.

For years, I honestly thought that maybe I was just a bit nuts or kidding myself and then felt almost vindicated when I saw an article on a lady who could smell Alzheimer's pre-diagnosis and when people were asysmtomatic.

Great thread!

I have a very good memory and can remember conversations word for word from decades ago... I should have been a journalist or a spy!

Same here! I just think I have one of those faces...

I have an excellent memory particularly for people and their stories. It helps a lot in my work because I never forget anyone I have seen as a Dr although there are thousands over my career. Colleagues and patients are often amazed that I can remember the whole story of someone I met once 10 or 15 years ago. If it was on a home visit I’ll remember their house too and definitely any pets. I’m also good on recall of facts which has made me very good at exams over the years.

Conversely I suck massively at visuospatial stuff, I get lost a lot and can’t draw for toffee whereas my DH is a genius at that stuff. He has a particular superpower for flat pack furniture which he can assemble in minutes without even reading the instructions.

So many left handed people on here!!!! I am left handed and every now and again someone says it looks really weird when I write......

My husband is the cleverest person i have ever met, and because he's a bit awkward noone realises. But he went to mensa when he was 16 for all the tests - his IQ is over 180.

He also has synesthesia, it means he can SEE electricity. So he used to work fixing computers. What would take someone weeks and weeks of diagnostic tests takes him half an hour, because he can literally see the electricity in the circuits and see where there's a fault.

He can also do amazing things like just touch a light fitting that hasn't worked for years and it splutters into life. Our boiler once broke and would only work if he was stood next to it. We finally got the repair man out and my husband had to stay upstairs whilst he fixed it - the circuits were completely fried and needed replacing. Completely dead.

But it came to life and worked when he stood next to it.

I am also very cool, but no superpowers!!! I have spent decades looking very frumpy, like rose west, but have suddenly in my peri menopause had a spectacular glow up and I now look like JLo. No ozempic - just suddenly I stopped eating so much and could run for miles at a time.

When I think of a song I can often isolate the tracks (drums, bass etc) in my mind. I seem to be able to recall them pretty accurately. My memory in general is otherwise shit

I have a strong french accent

Not really anymore, but 35 years ago my RGP contact lenses used to make me feel supercool. When I first put them in at the opticians as a teenager my eyes watered a lot and I apologised to the optician, and he said 'most people are begging to take them out at this stage' 😆

I like being Gen X and feel that's very cool but obviously it isn't unique to me.

Me too!
Actually it’s all soft contacts now which are stupidly expensive and require lots of “being careful” less you get an eye infections . RGPlenses can be popped out, rinsed under the tap and popped back in. 😁

I try to take my sunshine with me wherever I go and have immense inner positive energy and optimism.

I had a single conversation with a senior civil servant that resulted in a FTSE 100 company pivoting its industrial strategy. The subsidiary company created as a direct result was worth nearly £100 million last year and is on track to be worth £300 million this year because what it does is key to our future.

If I hadn't had the conversation it would never have happened.

I never received a penny but it looks great on my CV.

Mainly matched betting, but lots of other stuff like surveys, cashback, paid to play sites.
I know not everyone likes Reddit but there’s a group called Beermoney UK and they have lots of guides.

When I try and explain, people usually say oh, does Wednesday taste like chocolate then? But it's a bit more subtle, not a specific taste i can describe, more like a tongue map thingy, bitter, sweet, sour etc
The number smell is not every number, cos that would be a bit too confusing, it's more numbers that are relevant to me, like memorable dates, birthdays, phone numbers, the bus route i use, even my postcode has a particular smell. I thought it was normal for everyone when I was growing up, another family member has it too.

I often hear from other people that I'm 'stylish' so I often get picked for things. I think it's caught up in preconceptions and stereotypes because I am French. They often comment on my scarf, bag, brooch, etc. It's almost like they want to perceive a difference. It is worse with Americans.

I have a race license
im fluent in another language

31, female

I have insane pattern recognition (it doesn't serve a great deal of purpose in real life though, other than normal decent pattern recognition might). Knowing what buzz words to use to get my point across to certain people has been good though (teachers, various medics, landlords etc).

I've had my poetry published when I was a teenager. My English teacher told me to send it to a few publishing houses and one of them accepted it. I get about a tenner a year in royalties

I'm really fucking good at cpr, which is actually pretty useful in my line of work, as is not panicking when the shit hits the fan, which I'm also very good at. I just do all my hyperventilating and crying once the crisis is over.

I'm also left handed, we're one in ten, we're really not that rare. I also have red hair and orange eyes though, so genetically, pretty rare. I'm type of neg blood too so universal donor which is pretty cool, but I'm very short (4ft10) so not quite heavy enough to donate blood when I'm at a healthy weight.

I decided to quit smoking one day about 13 years ago and just.. Stopped. No smoking cessation sessions, no nicorette. Just stopped completely one day. Didn't even finish the last couple I had in my pack I gave them away. Haven't had a cigarette /vape /nicotine patch since.

I did not know there was a name for this! I can rhyme both well and quickly and am great at making up poems/limericks off the cuff or changing the words to songs as I sing them. Usually it’s to make people laugh but I also write silly poems for family occasions.

I read incredibly quickly and retain it. I think I trained myself because I was a librarian then an English teacher.
Also my first impressions of people are always correct.

I can learn different instruments very quickly and master new song’s incredibly fast. People are stunned!

Aged 6 I was in the press for having a very little known about condition. They didn’t really know why I had it, nor why the medication they gave me worked. I had a lot of students interested in me and appeared in the one leaflet that was published at the time in it. I naturally grew out of it when I was 19 and have no lasting effects.

I have a super-sense around how people are and what they might need - I get approached a lot for directions and questions etc in public as I must give off that vibe!

I have always and still can smell poorliness on my children. They are dumbfounded by it but it’s so pungent to me.

I was a Senior Manager, had a mortgage and was engaged at 24. By today’s standards, that’s adulting that comes by the late 30’s.

2 out of 3 of DC are lefties so I’ll tag on that as cool 🙂

I’m very good at languages. I speak 5 fluently (although haven’t kept them up) and feel confident that I could learn another if I wanted to. I became fluent in Italian in under a month.
That’s about the only thing I’m good at.

Any hat at all of any shape or size suits me.

I have a brilliant sense of direction and never get lost. I think I was a pigeon in a previous life - I can feel the way to go under my skin. It’s a physical skill, not a mental one.

Like a previous poster, I read in paragraphs or even pages, not words or lines. And I retain it in my short term memory very well. This makes me a super fast reader and an excellent exam passer and presenter. I don’t have to revise or rehearse - just quickly read notes once. I also don’t need a calendar. I remember what I’m doing and when. I think this and the directions skill are linked. I always seem to know where I am in time and space and what is next. If I’ve driven somewhere once, even years ago, even if I wasn’t driving, I never need directions again.

@rabbitwoman I have the flip side of your DH's superpower - I have been observed just being near electronics, and they fail. Inexplicably die or corrupt. I am completely banned from going into the hardware spaces or using shared drives at work because simply being in them can change/corrupt/delete files, even if I have not interacted with that part of the drive at all. There are spreadsheets that coworkers will update on my behalf to protect the data, as I was observed going into the sheet and doing absolutely nothing. However, it immediately catastrophically failed, losing months of data because it all vanished, including the back ups. My work used to laugh, thinking it was just a coincidence, but repeated issues and failures time and time again they now have a 'just in case' approach. They now have me with a brick of a phone and a old old old laptop.

Whenever I go into work, the tap card entry system always seems to go down, as does the aircon. My online bank account always has problems or glitches, as does the payroll system, so I always have issues getting paid. You also don't need to be in direct contact with me, for me to mess up your system. If you are talking on the phone with me, for example, poor people in call centres who are just trying to sort out something minor or book something for me...... and suddenly systems start to play up and go down.

My IT department has a nickname for me WOWO (it's the sign-in on my deskphone), it stands for a 'Walking one woman outage'

I've made it to almost 42 years old without ever having a filling in my teeth 😁