What's YOUR superpower?

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fascinating! can you tell me if you hear words or just intense feelings from the other party? i get intense feelings in a general direction sorta like how an animal might cognate. one time, i was at work and i saw a coworker headed towards me, all of a sudden i just knew that he was gonna ask me about the health of a hospitalized coworker we both knew, and as i passed him before he could speak, i said "she's out of surgery and is doing fine." he stopped me and asked me how the hell i knew he was gonna ask me that, and i just shrugged my shoulders and walked on down the hall. that happened several times with various coworkers who just happened to be on my wavelength. there was another coworker who was a maga-type, had a vicious temper, i could "see" "hatewaves" coming off of him when he was worked up over something he didn't like that i did.

I've had some ESP, but not enough to rely on. I can build machines in my mind, although I need paper to get the dimensions well sorted. Tesla said that he could mentally build machines, run them, and check for wear. My extra regards the structural parts, on which I can do enough Finite Element Analysis to spot potential cracks and wasted material, and see how the loads will distort the dimensions.
This ability arose because my mother found she could keep me quiet for a few minutes by asking me to push the spaghetti into the boiling water as fast as it would soften and not break.
I used to have a very reliable mental alarm clock.
I can touch surfaces and adhesives, and tell which are compatible.
I can dig out false assumptions that escape almost all others.

I'm good at many things, but the best quality I have is problem solving.

Ask me something and I always come up with an answer. I don't have to think, they just come to me. And I usually sound very convincing.

Show me a problem and my brain instantly come up with a whole bunch of solutions, some of them relevant, some meant to be funny, and some that might actually work.

Give me something that's broken and I'll come up with a way to fix it.

It's a blessing and also a curse. People in my life seem to come to me with all their problems and expect answers and solutions. I'm not too upset about those, except they need to rant on and on about the whole story and their feelings and stuff and waste my time.

Mine's a physical one - I have prothrombin gene mutation. It means that if I hurt myself by way of a cut, I'll hardly bleed. Unfortunately giving blood is out of the question, it hardly comes out. Blood tests take ages to do.

Before I knew I had this I always wondered why people bled so much when they cut themselves.

Yeah, I'm a mutant.

My superpower? I could say but that would be telling! Haha!

Thus far zero superpowers that I know of unless you count holding grudge

You have a clear way of describing things in an open and honest way.

I have an almost eidetic memory for sounds - I can listen to songs in my head exactly as I heard them, like a radio. I always know what key the songs should be in, and know instinctively if the key is wrong (which is actually pretty annoying). My perfect pitch seems to have neurologically gone off-balance somehow, as I pitch everything about a half step higher than it actually is, but I can still sing back what I know properly, and I still know when it sounds "wrong".

^^^i am glad to hear i'm not the only one whose perfect pitch has become slightly less perfect. i believe it is due to cochlear shrinkage from aging.

I'm a completionist. To date, I have all the orchestral and solo piano music of 560 classical and romantic composers, from Abe to Zyman. My biggest collection? Franz List with 106 CD's.

This trait is also evident when I set my mind on writing (and completing) poems, novels, screenplays, short stories, stage plays, songs, my blog, etc. Currently, I'm in the middle of completing my first short film, Maj. Nobody. It'll be about 16 minutes long. It is a tedious undertaking, however, because not only am I the writer of the film but also the sole actor, cinematographer, editor, sound designer, narrator, director, etc.

moi aussi. will you show sample of it here on WP when finished?

I think that I struggle with math, but I seem to be pretty good at estimates in my head, and I can derive engineering from high school physics. One example involved the Air [powered] Car which had about a ten year run as a successful stock fraud. I knew at a glance that the numbers in their brochure were impossible, and told an author who had praised it. He replied that so many other people couldn't be wrong, but almost all of them had gone to the same science class and then farther in school than I. All it took was one person willing to wait for its tank to run out, which actually took minutes, not hours. I wish I'd been there, taking bets. I am also very quick to detect similar tricks, like perpetual motion machines.

My super handicap has been expecting other people to understand basic engineering - I didn't know that exhibiting EQ used up most of a NT brain without providing much IQ.

Reminds me of that news story that swept the nation like five years ago. About that yuppie couple in California who launched a search party for their little boy...who they said had been carried away into the sky by a big decorated party balloon.

They showed a photo (taken indoors) of the kid with the balloon, and it was huge for a party balloon, and about five times the size of the kid. But (since I had gone through an aspie special interest phase of being into Zeppilins decades earlier) I could see at a glance that the whole story was a hoax. I could see that there was no way that that balloon could lift that kid because a fifty pound kid would need almost a thousand cubic feet of helium to get off of the ground (the balloon would have to be over ten feet tall and wide), and would hafta dwarf the kid, and wouldn't even fit inside the house.

Days latter they found the kid alive and well in basement of the house.

Yes.

Maybe he will put it on U Tube/

That's wonderful! Next, we'll have flocks of swallows, trailing nets of creeper to scoop them up.

BTW, from time to time, I see proposals for a modern steam engine. Quite often, the boiler is just too small. However, in children's cartoons, the steam locomotives are still drawn with the correct proportions.

That could be a good or bad thing

There are not that many things to describe and nobody to describe them to

Precision of language is better than nothing but

"Actions speak louder than words"