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Dear_one
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25 May 2021, 8:08 pm

^^ Perhaps we should say "abilities" rather than "powers," which implies an ability with a practical result. Maybe you are really fishing for "the most unusual aspect," not an ability at all.
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26 May 2021, 1:05 pm

I don't have any. :lol:


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26 May 2021, 7:11 pm

I wouldn't call anything I've got a superpower. I'm more geared to being somewhat more able than average with certain specific things. So I'm good at programming but only on a relatively low level. I think I was always valued as a good, diligent science worker, but I was no virtuoso. I'm a fairly good musician in some ways but I don't know that many guitar chords and wouldn't know where to start if I had to play like Eric Clapton. My singing voice has good projection, delivery, accuracy and quite a pleasing, sometimes exciting quality to it compared with many amateurs, but quite a few professionals have the edge over me. I'm good a producing music recordings but they're rarely breathtaking. I notice things that others don't, and they sometimes thank me for it, but equally they see a lot that I don't see. Without much outside help apart from the Internet, I can solve the great majority of problems that come my way, but it can take me a long time. I can focus my attention remarkably well but the conditions have to be right and I have difficulty in detaching and resuming from a subject. I can think harder than many people but I tend to overthink and get into diminishing returns. I'm uncommonly good-natured and friendly, but there are a lot of things I won't stand for and if I think something is wrong I can't seem to let it go, I'm the most unsnobbish snob I know.



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26 May 2021, 7:20 pm

The inability to burp even after drinking soda.

My good autobiographical memory.


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26 May 2021, 7:28 pm

Superpowers... Eh, I got nothing.

Maybe except chaos -- perceiving enough to dealing with it in my existence in every second, and maybe embodying it and causing it. Sometimes it breaks physics, but I could be lying. :twisted:
But I'd rather have the power of flight instead. :lol:


Abilities... They come and go for me.
I could have it all and all that is useful and good, better than most people for as long as the laws of physics allows it.
I could have none, except the simplest of cognition, most basic of daily living activities and survival, but otherwise being below average.

I want a stable and consistent or improving executive function.


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27 May 2021, 4:13 am

1. Drawing.
2. Geography.
3. History.
4. Surfing the internet.
5. Memory.



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27 May 2021, 9:11 am

My holographic German helmet is my superpower. There....I've said it! I finally said it!


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27 May 2021, 6:45 pm

It seems I can become invisible if there are two or more other people in the room, five minutes or less after they’ve entered (too bad I can’t figure out how not to :roll: ). I have a remarkable talent for getting in the way no matter how hard I try to stay out of the way. Other than that, I’ve got nothing.


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29 May 2021, 1:30 am

im good at public speaking and i have a great memory.



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29 May 2021, 1:56 am

I can make everyone in the room uncomfortable. :twisted:


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29 May 2021, 2:14 am

I can select a suitable glue by touching a surface.
I can detect an electrically "live" surface without getting a shock.
I can hear the faint clicks of a thermostat.
I can ignore whole genres of popular things.
I have great luck with machinery. I once rode my bike along a trail so rough that when I stopped for a view, my hands were still curled from gripping the bars. My watch strap then broke, and dropped my watch into my hand. The back tire on that bike was worn, so I bought a new one and waited. The old one blew just as I stopped to park where I had the tire stored.