Do you have a superpower?

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hmm I can voluntarily dilate my pupils and raise my heart rate(i guess I can say I can control adrenaline release?) without thinking about anything..I can do it easily like I can move my hands...It makes me hands feel all tingly too..weird haha.. pretty useless one i think but i dont know anyone else who can do it and Im not even sure what exactly Im doing when I do it.

I think it's mostly good; if things get to loud you can just cover your ears with your hands our put on earplugs and then take them out if you want your hearing to improve while most people can't improve it.

I think a great example why hypersensetive hearing can be a good thing happened earlier today when my partner and I were walking in the woods, we heard some distant childrens voices and we walked towards them (making wolf sounds just to see their reactions) and when we came a bit closer we coud hear separate words (them telling their mom that they think they heard a wolf ) and when we came close to the edge of the forrest we saw that the voices came from a house that where a bit into the forrest on the other side of a 500-diameter meadow. So we could hear the voices from about 1000 meters and distinguish words from about 700.
I think I got abit off topic now, but I find theese things verry facinating!

The use of the word "superpower" is a little dramatic, maybe, but I think it's appropriate. People are capable of many amazing feats.

I'm very resourceful - I can make do and mend with the ability to see uses in things most others can't see. I think this comes from a. always having been poor and b. not being able to ask for things, I always had to work with what I had.

I also have the amazing ability to be pretty damn good at everything I try - that's not just me being arrogant for a change, when trying something for the first time if I decide to really give it a go then I will be good at it, I've been good at new things enough times for others to have noticed this superpower

I actually do have a super power. It is one that attracted people from all over the world to fly to Portland to meet me. I can hear in a most unusual way and have the ability to listen to a classical guitar (high end of course) and tell you want tonewoods it is made of. I can also tell you what sort of bracing the thing has most of the time as well. At the height of my "fame" regarding this, I had helped 13 people from all over the world pick out high end (9K plus) instruments for their pleasure. Local luthiers would regularly bring instruments to me for evaluation. A luthier in San Fran was so impressed with this and with my "intesity" for the instrument that he offered to build me a instrument (worth 9k) for free.

I flew down to his shop to pick out the tonewoods. He has some 15-20 backs and sides all numbered on his bench. He held up the wood and tapped it with his fingers and I told him what I heard in each piece of wood. I did not tell him which I liked the best nor otherwise influence the process of him making the guitar. About 4 months from the date that I heard those pieces of wood my guitar was finished. As soon as I played it I could identify which pieces he used to make my new guitar.

It is really weird/unexplanable.... I could actually make a career out of this if I so desired.

Well, why don't you? A career with musical instruments--that'd be lovely!

Uh... I already have an exceedingly awesome career in another area of Obsession. I am wildly succesful in high tech. Imagine that. An aspie in high tech? I once retired from it but love it too much so came back. Music is a hobby for me for now. With more time, I could do all the things I have an interest and gift in as more than just a hobby but alas... Time is limiting factor.

My hearing thing though really is a "super" power. I have made money from it. My first job in the military was listening to the radio for foreign comms (I also learned Russian and German for that job... Apparently able to do Languages too). My first patent submission was in audio AEC arena. I helped develop that technology for the SW that you know today as Skype. My extra special hearing comes in handy in all manners of ways but the guitar thing was the most surprising to everyone... Including me. It blows peoples minds that anyone can hear to that level of detail. LOL!

I can feel things without touching them. for example, I could close my eyes and run my hand a inch or two above the surface and tell you where small things like ink pens are located. I can mostly only feel things that are metal or electrical, if I hold my hand near my laptop or a power cord my fingers will start to tingle.

I know it's silly, but, MAN I envy you superpower-endowed people with your extrasensory pershmeh-shmeh and your awesome talents and stuff... -_-

Uh, I have a pretty good ear for music, and can usually pick up on a new instrument/song pretty quickly (so long as I know approximately how to hold the instrument/have heard the song, haha) - but it's not some massively impressive talent that leaves music instructors dumbfounded or anything. I'm about the same with drawing. I'm almost completely self-taught in both, though, so I guess that's kinda cool.
Oh, and I'm immune to boredom, which is pretty nice, too. That's about all I got.

I have the rare and much feared and desired superpower to stick my earlobes inside of my ears. Don't fret! I know your jealous, it is an tremendous and prodigous superpower the likes of which the world has never witnessed! Why you can not begin to imagine the care it takes to have this ferocious trait. Many a foe has been fallen to the flapping of my crimson lobes! Do not mess wit the Lobes! The Lobes will destroy you! The Lobes knows no fear! The Lobes eats fear for breakfast!

Wow I can also do that. When in a political science class or reading an article about something complex, I can just summarize it in a few short paragraphs for people to understand. I had this political science teacher, who was a neocon, got mad when I pointed out his flawed, pro US exceptionalist view of history.

My superpower is psychic ability. I am able to predict and influence at times the future. I am not proud of this power at all. Sometimes it goes years without predicting anything but then it can be one after another. Scary.

Also, humor.

Am currently staring at intimidating homework assignment and needed the laugh.

I suppose I am very good at coming up with new ideas.

Not just lying (which I only do when necessary), but writing new ideas for future stories.
ie. It usually takes me just under an hour to write up a whole sypnosis for a story, then a few weeks to develop it and put it under an archive for later. I've come up with quite a few stories, but I've only started actually writing five of them. Then I stopped writing the other four so I could focus on the one that's the most important to me.
Writing is the one thing I know I'll always be doing, but I use this "ability," if you will, to come up with stories I could adapt for my film class. It's very useful for lying, too, because I can come up with a story so quickly. Though, I'm not the most proud of the fact I can lie well.
I think the reason for this is because I think too much. I have a lot going on in my mind that revolves around the events that occur around me, or movies or tv shows I watch, or people I talk to, and all the possible things that could possibly happen.
Also, I listen to a lot of music an analyze the structures of every song (I also do with movies/tv shows/literature) and I am able to come up with new tunes in my head. But, I'm not very good at the piano, which is the only instrument I can play, so I can't really write music if I wanted to.

I'm also good at picking up accents. But this is an involuntary thing. For the past few months, I've been watching every old movie I could get my hands on. As a result, I now speak with a bit of a mid-atlantic slur.

I'm pretty good at a lot of things; a.k.a. got A's in 6/7 subjects (7th subject was the highest B+ you could get (B10) damn lol) when leaving high school, but I wouldn't say I'm a savant at any of them (not THAT good). Some people have said to me they think my music composition (contemporary voice and piano songs, not insane complex classical music or anything like that) is at "savant" level (using different words), but I'm not convinced.

Dr. Mario.