I can wiggle my ears.
Both. And each one individually.Every time I’ve read this in this thread, my ears flex hard. Sometimes if I do it too many times in a row one gets “stuck” for a moment before it can relax.
Probably odorous house ants (sometimes also called sugar ants). I’m fairly sensitive to their scent, myself and recall being in tears as a small child ~6 because one of them walked across my finger and no amount of washing would get the smell off. I’m not a fan.
i dont feel anything when i have caffeine. so i can drink Unfathomable amounts of tea :D
I can sometimes see auras around people. It’s fascinating stuff, but the strain of it can cause debilitating pain.
Western medicine calls it “migraines”, but what does science know?
I can speak Finnish.
I can eat spoiled food and not feel any ill effects except for stomach pains and diarrhea
(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Depression ♥
Hyper-compartmentalization. Everything can be falling apart around me, high stakes, emergency, danger, but I just proceed calmly and steadily toward the goal. I am a rat in a maze, and each decision is just an ab node in a tree. I make best guesses and don’t shoulda woulda. If I can’t make it and everything is horrible, that was the outcome, I did the best I could with the knowledge/data given, or I put in what I felt was right, and if I’m wrong, oh well.
now, regarding my superpower i give good hugs
I walk/exist quietly. I manage to sneak up on people all the time without intending it. Probably due to an abusive father who slept in and would crack the shits if I made too much noise in the mornings.
Synesthesia. I can see music. It’s fun.
Also, being resistant to pain killers. Not so fun (takes ages to get drunk, and I woke up 3 times during a surgery)
Are there any music pieces that are your favorite because of synesthesia? Or pieces that you couldn’t enjoy because of it?
I’d also imagine that watching movies must be a very different experience for you too haha.I prefer music without vocals. Not sure if the Synesthesia is the cause. But my Synesthesia doesn’t trigger on voices, which is an interesting way of showing that speech and sounds are processed differently in the brain.
The only way that voices trigger my synesthesia is when I can’t speak the language and it’s all just “gibberish noise” for me
That’s interesting! Thanks for the reply!
I have the annoying kind of synesthesia that’s more of a sidecar to OCD. People are hues. It’s even more frustrating that I can’t remember names, and I clearly can’t use that as a reference to another person without coming off as a whackadoodle.
That’s kind of cool, what does music look like to you? I assume it depends on the genre. What’s your favourite?
This is the most accurate depiction of it I found so far. Although I don’t see it like stuff around me, but more like a memory with “the minds eye”, so to speak
Oh I got that to a lesser degree. At night, I interpret sudden bangs (door slamming) as flashes of intense white light.
I realised that the lights were not real (phantom lightning, or bright outdoor lighrs winking on and off) once I started sleeping with a blindfold
I have this too, and it’s almost exactly the same. I get little from music though.
It can be really distracting when camping and an acorn falls on the tent or things like that.
I also smell in colour, if that makes any sense at all.
I don’t think so – the noises I hear are real, they’re just accompanied by flashes of light if my brain can’t place the source of the sound in realtime
I can’t really speak for you of course, but I can add that I thought it was the same for me. Until it turned out I was the only one who was hearing these noises.
Hah! Oh jesus, this will be a fun rabbithole for me to think about over the next few years.
Appreciate the warning, strangerHere’s a redditor that describes it quite well:
Me. I have this. Happens several times a night. Sounds like a door slamming or a gunshot. The weirdest part is you also get the feeling that there was an impact, like that feeling when someone stomps near you. So it’s not just auditory it’s almost physical. It’s a very strange thing and hard to describe because you’re always 3/4 of the way asleep when it happens. I’ve had it my whole life and always found it curious but have never questioned it out loud. I thought everyone had this until I saw “exploding head syndrome” on the internet. Asked my parents and siblings, no, none of them have this and what the fuck am I talking about? I’m in my goddamned 40s and thought this was normal.
Goddamit I said stop, I’ve already got a ton of other neuroses to worry about!
My husband used to work night shifts. When he came home in the wee hours of the morning he would get undressed in the dark, so as to not wake me up. If he happened to make a loud noise like dropping his phone, banging his belt buckle, etc, I would wake up seeing a specific pattern “behind my eyes”, so to speak, triggered by the noise. With time I realized the pattern changed depending on the nature of the noise!
Being resistant to pain killers and anesthesia is a bitch… Drinking is indeed no fun and very expensive, I also woke up multiple times during various surgeries. Also, dentistry is also a major bitch…
In a room full of power supplies i was the only one able to find which one was still powering something, because apparently out of the ~20 people that tried before me, i was the only one that could hear the transformer whine.
Also a general annoyance since i need to charge my phone in another room if i want to sleep without simulating tinnitus.
Found the youngest person.
That’s something you might lose over time, that’s why some places would install speakers witg certain sounds outside their door, kids wouldn’t hang around because it disturbed them, older people just didn’t hear it.
Masquito alarms should be illegal.
Unless you’re autistic. We don’t lose the top end of our hearing for some reason. Those “mosquito” devices can trigger my migraines, at 43 years old.
don’t think that autism has to do with it. The cause for the higher frequency hearing loss is a physical degradation of the small hairs in the cochlear. And in some people it just happens a lot less
No, really. It is very common for individuals on the autistic spectrum to have above average acuity of high frequency sound.
Fuck. I’m 35 and I was able to hear a falling ballast in a light fixture at a busy reptile expo.
I have a spectrum analyzer on my phone, which I had to use to prove to my wife that there was a loud high-pitch whine, and that it wasn’t tinnitus or a phantom sound.
This would be a weird way to find out I’m on the spectrum.
Your spectrum analyzer pulled double-duty!
Nice XD
Could it be a result of not liking other loud sounds? Loud music, concerts, loud crowded places, headphones played too loud etc all can damage your upper range hearing, and iirc many on the spectrum do not enjoy loud stumuli.
At the volume I have my games and music, I rather doubt it. :-/
If a “friend” detonates an IED firework in an abandoned field near your head you will lose that top end… But you will also get really bad tinnitus.
Another one!
It’s a common autistic trait, FYI 💛
SO that’s what I keep hearing in those dame phone chargers.
I don’t hear it all the time though, it sometimes starts happening and after that never stops. I believe it is that something breaks or is about to break that makes me suddenly able to hear it.
If someone more knowledge, knows what’s up with them please tell.
Usually it’s a bad capacitor
My solution to the charger wine was to get a better quality one. I find branded ones don’t have that issue anywhere near as much.
I can repressurize my ears without yawning, just by flexing a muscle. Even less useful, I can focus my eyes to different distances without using the finger trick, which comes in handy never.
If you are diving the first comes in very practically.
Is it the same muscle as when you do the rumbly ear thing?
Ear rumbling was gonna be my superpower. And I can indeed also use this to some extent to repressurize my ears.
I thought everyone could do this. That’s a super power?!
Not everyone!
Check out the Function->Voluntary Control section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
I tried to find stats on what proportion of people could do it, with claims of “a small number” through to “over half the population”.
This study says 55% in the general population. It’s also interesting as it’s exploring the ability to use this voluntary rumble as a control method for assistive technology.
The what?
you can easily view parallel or cross view images
I can focus my eyes to different distances
That’s not common? Tbh I never asked around if others can do it I just assumed it’s normal.
Maybe it is? When I was a kid people would have the magic eye things and they would have to focus on a finger, and I didn’t have to.
Are you a chameleon?
I can do both of those things too, but my ear repressurising abilities aren’t that strong, I usually have to either yawn or blow my closed nose.
It’d probably come in handy if you started sports shooting. I do Olympic-style air pistol shooting, and part of what I’m currently training on is focusing my eye on the forward sight, not the target.
I can focus my eyes to different distances without using the finger trick, which comes in handy never.
I’m assuming you’re talking about convergence. When your eyes are physically turning inward to align on a nearby object, that’s called convergence. Focusing is what your lenses do, although the technical term is “accommodation”.
I’m excellent at controlling convergence, too. I can be looking at my phone screen (like right now) and diverge my eyes just enough to make neighboring letters overlap. Or diverge them so much I see two phone screens entirely. Or anything in between. Same with converging and going cross-eyed.
I can even diverge my eyes slightly further than parallel, making individual stars in the night sky look like two stars. But not by a lot. Looking at me, you’d probably just think was looking in the distance. I can’t make my eyes look in different directions like a chameleon.
This does have one handy use: I can see those Magic Eye posters at will, in a split second, even across the room!
It could come in handy if you took up archery.
That’s true.
Tensor tympani is the muscle
I thought everyone could do this and always wondered why people complained about having to pop their ears
Well, not really superpowers since they are common in humans. However, they are pretty interesting abilities nonetheless.
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Advanced speech recognition. I can filter out speech of one person while ignoring other background noise and even other speech.
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Advanced face recognition. I can see faces in clouds, floors, and other inanimate objects. Also helps when looking at real faces of people in a crowd. See also: pareidolia
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Auditory hallucinations during hypnagogia. Look it up. It’s weird and trippy.
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Desensitization and habituation to capsaicin. I can eat spicy foods.
lol well done. the clinical language makes these very mundane skills seem mystical. Hypnagogic AH!
I have the opposites of all of these.
I can’t differentiate noises, I’m awful at picking out speech in loud places, I’m bad with faces, and spicy foods upset my stomach (I can eat them, but it has consequences).
spicy foods upset my stomach (I can eat them, but it has consequences).
Same. It sucks. My brothers have continually given me shit for decades for being a bitch that doesn’t like spicy wings. I’m like “dudes, it’s not that I don’t enjoy the taste, it’s that my stomach will literally cramp up 4 hours from now and I’ll be shitting pain.”
They don’t care.
You are not alone.
My evil twin from the mirror dimension. We meet at last! Or maybe I’m the evil one?
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I can smell reposts and pictures I have already seen a mile away.
