Picking stuff up with my toes. I use the two big ones like chopsticks or just scrunch something up with all of them together. My toes can spread out as wide as my fingers, so it’s easy to manipulate things with them. Also, I am very well balanced on one leg, probably because of doing this for so long.
This power is more and more useful as I get older and find it more of a chore to bend over, with my beer belly getting in the way (I’m almost 50, it’s a sign of success!). If it’s below my waist I’m going to pick it up with my foot 50% basically.
I live in a warm climate and hardly ever wear closed shoes luckily, I know some places it wouldn’t be practical…
I used to be able to tell if a TV was on or not. I can’t really explain it, but it was like I could vaguely hear/feel it? I don’t know, I was a kid. My grandma would play her games without sound sometimes so she wouldn’t wake people up (and probably to play without a kid hanging off of her), but I evolved to counter it. 😂
I’m really bad with names and faces, but I can distinguish twins. I mean not the twins like “and my twin has a penis” but monozygotic twins.
I don’t claim it to be any kind of a super power, but with my inability to recognize people even after they’ve been at the hairdresser it’s really astonishing.
I have never been, nor seem to be able to get motion sickness. No seasickness either. I can read books on all sorts of moving vehicles, and I love roller coasters. Whip me around upside down in pitch dark at 60mph and I’ll just call it a good time. My husband says I am squandering my powers because I can play as much of whatever motion intense VR game as I want, but I just end up playing Beat Saber most of the time.
i can touch my thumb to my wrist. Not terribly useful.
Hypermobility can be a health risk indicator for more than just EDS. Consult your GP.
I can touch my thumb to my ankle!
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20362125
Weirdly flexible joints are a sign of this condition. I found out recently (at like 32) that I probably have a mild version of this. Mainly due to weird allergies and being able to bend/dislocate my fingers in weird ways.
May be worth checking into if you don’t know already. Don’t consider this a diagnosis. I am not your doctor, nor am I a doctor at all.
I aquired this superpower trough habits, but i can intuitively find the north.
Apart from that, well, I’m just myself
I can read any book cover to cover even if it is terribly dull or i don’t understand it
wait i’m a supertaster and i fucking hate ants, if that’s the scent i can do it too. well i could if i didn’t shitbomb the bathroom so often. but you may have legitimately helped me in my lifelong war against the ants (i’m farsighted i cannot see them until i sit down and they crawl up and bite my jibblies thank you)
My sister and I were talking about benign superpowers and decided the X-Men probably have someone like a band director with a superpower like perfect pitch who watches after the school while everyone else is off adventuring.
I never stop being horny
I have the same super power
do you like it
Depends on the day, today not really.
I can cut butter to the exact weight each time.
I can plug in a USB drive/cable on the first time, successfully, without flipflopping the connector (and then USB C had to come along and invalidate my only worthwhile achievement)
as a child I had impeccable vision and could easily see the shapes of leaves on tree tops from 1/4 mile. I have some kind of degenerative eye disease and have had glasses since I was about 13.
before covid I could smell things days after they happened. I avoided elevators like a plague. now all I smell is smoke! since I can’t smell shit, my taste has also dulled greatly.
I can hear a wasp flying on the other end of my house, about 50 feet away, while the TV is on. I would say it’s a fluke if I’ve done it once or twice. I’ve done it about 3-5 times a year since 2020. they are the loudest just as they’re taking off from a surface or landing. the buzz they make is unmistakable.
I can also hear the frequency changes of electronic components, hear a house fire from a mile away, and have used it to identify broken PC and car parts.
I can blur my vision on command, kinda useless but a bit of fun to play with.
I also have a lazy eye, so I can scare unsuspecting people, sometimes two at a time if they’re positioned right.
I subconsciously hear GIFs and silent videos. On repeating GIFs, the same sound plays over and over. Some GIFs sound satisfying and hypnotic and keep me entranced for a long time, while others are loud and obnoxious and make me scroll away from them immediately.