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 wiggle my ears.
I’m also ambidextrous and can write my name with my foot using a pen. My DH is right handed but when playing golf and cricket he is left handed. His brother is left handed but plays sport right handed. Apparently their fDF was the same.

DS is also right handed and plays sport left handed. He’s a good cricketer and totally confuses the opposition who assume that because he’s a left handed batter that he also bowls left handed but no he’s a right handed bowler.

The best trick is being able to swap hands half way through an activity. It’s great when decorating being able to use a brush in either hand.

The only downside is that I’m useless with left and right when giving directions. Thank goodness for Sat nav’s.

For anyone wondering how I know I can write with my foot, we once spent a bored afternoon during a power cut trying to write our names with hands, feet and mouth. When the WiFi doesn’t work it’s a great way of entertaining children. We are a competitive family so it involved a great deal of practice and concentration.

This is lame, but I can touch type.

Not especially useful on a phone!

Not a thing. I am spectacularly average at everything. Looks, talent, career, lifestyle, finances.

I’ve never worn leopard print.

I'm a really good mediator, negotiator and general calmer downer.
Although it ended up being part of my job, I’ve always done it, from childhood, in playground disputes and fights.
I've had loaded guns pointed at my head, taken knives off angry or pissed people, sorted bitter family feuds, etc.

I was also another “Daisy” when I was breast feeding. i gave milk to all the prem babies in the unit..

I can become invisible when I need not to be noticed.

DCs friends have referred to me as the cool mum, because I once had a job where I regularly dealt with A-list celebrities. I’m spectacularly mundane in every sense otherwise.

I have a 6th sense to the spirit world, but choose to ignore it

I notice every tiny detail, when others don't.

I can sometimes sense things and just know to be in the right place at the right time. There have been too many times this has happened, for it to be a coincidence

I would make a brilliant detective

I have a brilliant long term memory and can remember whole conversations from 30 years ago, including what people were wearing.

I remember every number plate of every car I have every owned (I'm on my 50s, so a lot more than 1 or 2 cars) plus those of my parents from when I was a child

I am super creative. I can just about make anything from scratch. I sew, paint, sculpt, papercut, knit, you name it. I can recite 100s of poems from memory. I am an excellent dancer. I make great cheesecake. I am pretty shit hot at netball.

I am left handed and my hair is flame red / copper and no one believes it’s my natural colour.
I can tell the time without looking at a clock.

I am pretty flexible in the sense I can bend and touch my palms on the floor.

Oh, I am also lefthanded.

I would say that I am a good saver and DIY investor who managed to build up a healthy investment portfolio for myself and the dcs from scratch over the years without much independent financial advice whilst working ft by just doing boring and consistent things and staying out of bad investments and financial products. I'd say that is my superpower. Nobody really knows but my dc are set.

I have colour-grapheme and lexical-gustatory synaesthesia. Letters, words, days of the week and months have particular colours and some words also have tastes. The effect isn't as strong as when I was a child, but it's still there. I like having synaesthesia and my innate colour-coding system can help me remember things.

When I'm listening to music with my eyes closed I can "see" all of the lyrics & the tune going up or down (like on karaoke you have a bouncy ball moving in time to the music)

When I worked in a nursing home I could smell death. If the residents were on palliative/end of life care I could always smell when their end was close.

I work in the community nursing team, despite a large caseload I can remember the house number and street name of all the patients.

I'm a really good mediator, negotiator and general calmer downer.
Although it ended up being part of my job, I’ve always done it, from childhood, in playground disputes and fights.
I've had loaded guns pointed at my head, taken knives off angry or pissed people, sorted bitter family feuds, etc.

This is a great skill and one of my friends has it. He used to be a housing officer and is now a support worker. I also knew a couple of security guards with this skill. One of them was quite short and skinny, but adept at calming angry, sometimes threatening people down.

I've been mistaken for a spy, more than once. Even had my apartment turned over. That wasn't nice at the time but it's a cool anecdote.

(Am not a spy.)

I can wiggle my little toe on my right foot independently, my OH calls it my alien toe 😂

Complete strangers, colleagues, and people who don't even like me find they are compelled to share very personal information with me. They are always shocked and never understand how it happened.

I have one hand and arm bigger than the other not enough for people to notice but enough to confuse police at a crime scene.
I have ginger hair so make my own Vit D and I'm one of the 3% of the population who gives blood.

That would be me.

Not to burst your bubble but on iplayer ( I think) there is a documentary about a family with natural conceived identical quads.

Their dad has been nicknamed,'The Quadfather'

I speak 4 languages fluently and can get by/ understand a few others.
Animals love me. As do most children

Sorry that was to the OP about the quads.

I am a super sniffer! Like a medical detection dog. I can smell when someone is ill and can differentiate between and identify a few types of illness/ disease. I’m also very good at wine-tasting, love perfumes, etc.

I somehow didn’t internalise any of the female socialisation stuff that has made so many of my friends miserable until perimenopause. I’m not a people-pleaser, I’m low in agreeability, I really don’t care if people like me, I have no desire to care-take. No children, never married, adore dogs but don’t want to be responsible for one.

One of my Great-Great grandparents was born in 1768.

I wouldn’t bet money on all your grandparents, or even parents, being right-handed. While I was allowed to be just be left-handed, my mum (like @drspouse’s) was forced to be right-handed, and I have heard of people trying to discourage left-handed preference even in babies and toddlers (I’m talking about decades ago). It’s also possible that since about 40 genes determine handedness, that maybe you and your DH are the first in your family to produce the exact genetics that would lead to left-handedness; what’s relevant to that possibility is that both your DC are left-handed.

I was in San Francisco last year and a man got shot near me. I managed to get the bullet out and save his life. It was so scary with an active shooter but that's the job. I specialise in emergency and trauma medicine.

I've only seem one shooting victim here in Ireland. Very lucky I don't live in the USA.