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😂

WOW! Now that's a REAL super power. 😲

I’ve achieved stuff despite some shitty stuff happening/start I has and I am quietly cool about my stuff

Yep. It's like Mumsnet is like the X Academy for really cool women.😎💃💃💃

Thanks @Chicky6.😊

I'm having trouble trying to "picture" how this affects your life??

Small children and dogs always make a bee line to me

i am the world's worst judge of character although i like to think i am shit hot at character judging

i can fit ten fruitellas in my mouth at the same time. ultra brag: any flavour

i am a reasonably good stalker. (only internet stalking. i'm too cold to do out in the actual world stalking)

I took flying lessons and got a pilot's licence at 35.

Apparently I'm the coolest mum ever.

I'm a mum of twins plus an older singleton.
I slammed my right hand in a car door when I was 10 and had to use my left hand for everything. I can write and do numbers left handed and I do the crossword and soduku daily left handed to keep it up. I'm in my 60's.
I can remember faces, details that you've told me about your life, names of your dogs but never your actual name! People tell me all sorts all the time.
I remember phone numbers, bank account numbers, not necessarily mine! (used to work in a bank) .
I can do simple mental arithmetic so fast I have to stop and go back to check I've done it right.
I got 39 on Popmaster once, does that count? Lol.
However, I have no sense of direction and could get lost in a cupboard so........

This post has been ab fab. Mumsnetters are the most interesting and entertaining people and some are truly gifted and special 🤩

My 19 yo DC's friends think I'm the GOAT. Unfortunately, the 19 yo DC doesn't at all! (Typical teen!) 😆

I'm one of the only 10% female Close Protection Officers in the country

I remembered another one. I very frequently appear in other people's dreams. I get told that a lot by people. Unfortunately, some times they don't really elaborate what I was doing in the dream, some look a bit uncomfortable when I ask.

I apologise if my dream self was misbehaving- I have no control over her.

Ooh another one! I can (or could) strip down and reassemble an AK47 rifle.

In my case a FN SLR

This is my oldest son's.............

His maternal Grandfather was talking about going down to the seafront near his home - he lived outside Chatham as a 4 year old and seeing the D-Day Invasion Fleet assemble - I think it must have been Follow Up Force L

My Dad who was by then very frail suddenly piped up 'I was on one of those ships!' - he was a 27 year old Army Lorry Driver in those days.

So his Grandfathers met at D-Day which is pretty cool for a 24 year old

I forgot the name of someone who had phoned the office and nearly said "it's a green and red name" (meaning green first name and red surname). But no one could have helped me - I was on my own 😆

It doesn't really as I didn't find out till 60ish . Having a mind's eye would freak me out.

Also, two other things are connected to it. Apparently, many see pictures when they read, I just see the words. I can't replay music and songs in my head.

However, none of these really bother me, I've been ok without them!!

I apologise mine aren't light-hearted, but here goes:

I narrowly avoided being raped twice.
I was once arrested for a very, very minor - frivolous - crime; never told anyone since.
Whenever I have cystitis coming on, I can stop it from becoming a full-on attack.

Sorry in advance if this is a bit long ...
I have multi-level synesthesia - I didn't know when I was growing up that I was any different to anyone else! It can be a bit overwhelming at times, especially if I am tired or ill, but I wouldn't change it for the world.

I see days of the week as colours, have some strong aversions to any combination of the numbers 3, 6 and 9 - just typing them makes me feel weird and they are pulsing bright red - I can't put my stuff in the lockers at the gym with any of those numbers on - the number 14 is light blue and sparkly and if I come across it reading it makes me happy.

I also have calender space synesthesia, December started out fat and is now very thin a bit like a tail and next December is behind the horizon in my mind - June is a circle in the middle and other months close to it are kind of in orbit.
I can know the time within a minute and take something out of the oven a split second before my Alexa alarm.

My favourite form is music/colour - if I listen to gloomy or minor key music - I get a lovely swirl of olive green and mauve which are my favourite colours. I can get completely in a trance with Kashmir by LZ for example - I can feel just enveloped in the colours and if I get an earworm - it always is coloured in my mind too.

If I jump from a loud noise, I get a metallic grey taste in my mouth.

Not sure if this makes me cool :/ but it gives me a good memory as everything has so much attached to it.

Would have loved to have grown twin babies !!!!

Me too . I forgot that I can do this

I always wanted twins but they never came .
Hoping at least one of my dcs have twins

Just as an aside, I'm really curious with synesthesia: if you've ever met someone who shares it, do you both experience things the same way? I'd love to know whether a number really IS green/red, or if it's just a very personal association!

Years ago I did a bit of experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and it's surprising how often the "inner" experience was shared.

A PP mentioned hearing songs that don't exist. This is an oddity about coming down from this sort of drug, say after a festival where your auditory senses have been stimulated all weekend: when sitting in silence somewhere back home, you can hear all kinds of music so clearly that you sometimes have to remind yourself you're not listening to the radio. I mean with voices, full backing of a band or orchestra, high production values, the whole shebang.

I've often wished I could annotate music, just so that I could capture it. (No doubt this is how some musicians create!)

Just sharing this as a side note in case it's of any interest, as brain chemistry must play a part.

I had a painless labour with no meds. I'm dyspraxic but I can undo knots.

I can set my internal alarm to wake myself up. If I need to be up at 6 I remind myself that I need to be up at 6 and wake up within 5 minutes either side. If I've set an actual alarm then I will wake up 5 minutes before the alarm is due to go off.

'Beachtastic' Yes! I'm sure my mum had it - she would say random things like 'I don't know why they are called Black Sabbath when their songs are mostly orange' and I knew exactly what she meant.

Her calendar one was better than mine though - say, if you were making a dentist appointment for three months time on the 18th, she would blink and say 'no we can't do that it's a Thursday and we see nan on Thursdays' and she would always be right.

The psychedelic drugs one is true and some people do experience it when taking them - but AFAIK it doesn't last after the drug has worn off.

I would be too scared to try anything like that - I've got enough going on!! 😂