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’ve got a great sense of direction. I swear I have an inbuilt sat nav!

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!

@Beachtastic I wondered this but I discovered the answer. My daughter has it and was really surprised to hear someone on the radio talking about it one day and declare the days of the week to have different colours from the ones she sees. So I figure it must be some kind of associative thing.

I've fired one of them, and a Vickers machine gun.

Should be one of "those" not them!

I'd say this is mine too! Animals gravitate towards me for some reason, even the cats that usually run away at the first hint of human contact. It makes for interesting holidays in places with lots of wildlife.

I'm distantly (obviously) related to Alexander the great on my fathers side.

I've met a few other people with synaesthesia and we all experience it differently. I find it really odd - almost nauseating - to hear that other people think Wednesdays are green, for example, when they're most definitively a dusky rose pink!

Other things that have freaked me out - when my best friend got married and changed her name, she went from being a blue (first name) and green (surname) person, to yellow (surname) which just felt so wrong! I was very pleased when she later got divorced and went back to her original name :)

On the drugs front, in my younger years when I took ecstasy or mushrooms (it was the 90s) I would experience music in 3D. Dunno how to explain it but dance music for example would be like a hard box with defined straight edges that I could feel and I would be 'inside' it, and would fully experience the music as a tangible, pulsating object. More abstract or ambient music I'd experience as liquid, like treacle - I could put my hand out in front of me and 'feel' it.

I'm a musician anyway, so don't know if that has anything to do with it, but suspect quite a lot of people had similar experiences, musical or not.

And that reminds me of my other 'superpower' - I can remember pretty much any piece of music after one listen and sing or play it back on the piano. I can also very easily isolate individual parts in a piece of music. Eg, if you played me a song and asked me to hum back just the bass guitar part I could do that. I can also predict the way the melody is going to go, or sense the entirety of a piece of music before I've heard it all. Some people call this 'audiation'. It's a bit like when an artist visualises the final image before they've painted it. For my masters dissertation I had to write a piece for full orchestra, and I guess that's how I was able to hear all the different parts and instruments in my head before committing them to manuscript.

We seem to be the go to place for lost animals

Two dogs, a tortoise & a chicken so far

Its a bit worrying as we are not far from Longleat...........

Gosh you're very impressive, and really cool!

I used to experience being 'inside the music' when I was a 90s ecstasy queen, 3D like, but i don't remember if it had shape. I don't have any of your cool qualities these days, so it was definitely the drugs! The effects would last into Sunday, & the odd pop into Tuesday/ Wed. (Ah, those were the days).

Ahhhh thanks! I don't think I've ever been called either impressive or cool before!

It's funny as all these things we're writing about here we probably just think of as normal, if we think about them at all. It's only when someone asks on a thread like this, you suddenly think - actually, that IS quite unusual or cool or whatever.

For me, I'd love to be an animal whisperer, or sniff out illness, or speak 15 languages or some of the other incredible things on this thread. They seem far more impressive to me!

Cats love me and will choose to sit on my lap, even cats who never sit on anyone's lap will sit on mine.

I can identify most cars from the shape of their lights.

I also cannot really memorise things. If you asked me to remember a poem or quotes from a book or vast majority of things. Absolutely no chance. However, I have an absolutely brilliant memory for remembering things I don't mean to remember and I learnt very passively. In school and uni, I would sit in class and doodle or play an inane game on my phone and I would just absorb the information. Whenever I tried to listen and learn I wouldn't have a clue.

I am brilliant at exams. Like all the information just slows out of me and makes perfect sense. I am shockingly bad at course work though 😂

Largely totally useless things though 😂

I would love to have synesthesia, it must add another dimenension to life. I am finding it fascinating reading about people's experiences of it.

My sister has synaesthesia too and our colours aren't the same. She only has the colour/grapheme type.

My eyes are different colours (this is what my children think is cool about me), one brown and one green. I think I am slightly cool because I can pick up languages very easily and with authentic accents - no idea why, but I’ve always been good at languages and am mistaken for other nationalities a lot on holidays.

I am a blood donor and have O- blood type, I am also CMV negative (CMV is a common virus that a lot have people have been exposed to) so my blood can be given to neonatal babies. I often get a text a few days after donating that tells me where my blood has been used.

I impressed DH mightily recently by translating some Italian despite never having studied it at all. I can see the patterns in language and work out OK that must be a past tense, that be an adjective, etc. I've done it with Swedish and Romanian too.

Both my kids are left handed. My parents are Nigerian and my dad used to really tell us off if we gave him anything with our left hands. He’s not too fussed about his left handed grandchildren though. He really has mellowed with age 😂
My DD(7) has a photograph memory - not officially but she can read something the day before or at school and then regale you with the facts and figures. Usually when it’s her bedtime or you’re trying to watch tv 🙄 I do think that’s cool though

So when someone asks you to imagine something, i.e. lying on a sunny beach under a palm tree, can you not do this?

I have a high IQ.

I am very efficient at growing babies and delivering them.. I have slightly short pregnancies( around 36-37 weeks) and give birth in 4 hours or less without the need for painkillers or interventions. I have got pregnant every time I have had unprotected sex. Breastfeeding was very easy for me. I hear my mother, aunt and grandmother also delivered babies quickly and easily.

I’m 45 and haven’t found a grey hair yet.

I have naturally curly thick dark hair in my 60s, although I do touch up my roots a bit now. My grandma had brown hair still when she died at 92 and never dyed it. I also speak a second language fluently.

I can’t remember where I left my phone or why I went upstairs, but I can remember people’s addresses and friends’ birthdays from way back. (I’m a teacher and in the days when we had paper registers with each child’s address listed, I’d have memorised my tutor group’s addresses by the second day of term!).

No, I can't . That's what no mind's eye/unable to make mental images /aphantasia means .