Something you’re just good at with minimal effort and/or you learned much more quickly than average.
For me, it’s paper snowflakes. My brain just seems to effortlessly figure out what cuts to make to the paper wedge to make it turn out exactly how I want it. Largely useless, but good fun and was a much-needed ego boost when I was a kid :]
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I can cook minute rice is 56 seconds.
I can smell extremely well. Can tell where coworkers / family members were (like on the staircase, in a room etc), recognize which seasoning is used in foods, that sort of stuff. Every once in a while I try to follow scents like a dog but it doesn’t work out that well.
On an unrelated note, I hate taking the subway, especially on hot days for uhh reasons.
Also I can hear pretty good, my friends use me as sound radar in Audio-Direktion heavy FPS games like Tarkov or back then PUBG.
My eyesight is pretty bad tho, probably for Balancing.
We are like polar opposites, my hearing and sense of smell are pretty bad, but I see significantly better than the standard 20/20 vision test (I can effortlessly read webpages on my phone in desktop mode).
Your eyes, hand them over
Calm down, Orochimaru…
Being alive. In my whole life I haven’t died even once.
Reminds me of an obvious/interesting factoid I once saw pointed out:
Every single one of us is at the end of an unbroken line — aaalllll the way back to microorganisms — of folks / critters / etc. that lived long enough to procreate.
Hearty fuckers, every one of us. In a certain sense…
I recently discovered I can use an angle grinder with a level of precision and finess most people take some time to develop.
From free hand cutting straight lines into pretty much anything that can be cut, to precise cut of stone, cement or even metal.
I was dead afraid of this particular power tool for all my life and only when forced to use one to do some repairs around the house I discovered I could handle it so easily.
I’m a level 15 bureaucrat. I’ve filled out government applications longer than my thesis, with only a pen and the bitter joy of precision.
I can hear you, listen to you, and forget about what you say all at the same time!
The ADHD superpower.
The power to read a book page 3-4 times before full comprehension.
As a kid I used to read like 2 books a day, now I have the same problem. Like wtf happened
I tend to always come second in trivia competitions
I’m a perfect failure. If you hand me anything, no matter how complex or simple, I will fuck it up beyond all chance of repair and you will never figure out how it happened because even I don’t know.
Citation: my life, job, friends, ex-gf, family, hobbies, etc…
You wrote this comment really well.
Which, in a way, means they failed at failing!
I’m pretty good at sensing the emotions of people around me. It’s not magic like some people think, but an obsessive awareness of small facial and body movements.
Oh, and writing dialogue is super easy for me, not sure why some people have a hard time with it.
These are possibly related. I am absolutely terrible at sensing people’s emotions around me and understanding body language, and not so coincidentally, I am absolutely terrible at writing dialogue.
I’m ambidextrous and really good at tech support.
I’m really good at getting cats to vocally respond to me. I don’t know if I’m just on their wavelength or what, but almost every time I start a convo with a kitty I get a response. Oddly specific, but also pretty fun. Kids love it lol.
Cats love me as well, I have never seen a cat who didn’t immediately like me.
My ability to whip a story up at the spot is pretty damn good. I run Dungeons and Dragons in a homebrewed world, and a good part of it is made up on the spot. While doing this, I always make sure to keep consistency.
The only thing I’m lacking is long monologues… That is hard to just make up
That’s a fantastic talent. Creativity is one thing but quick improvisational creativity is a whole other level
For monologues: do you do ok improv-ing dialogues? If so maybe you could trick your brain by thinking about how a monologuing character is kind of having a dialogue with different parts of themself
my two special snowflake things:
i can stop my own hiccups at will 100% of the time
i have always lucid dreamed since as far back as i can remember, i genuinely believed that everyone experienced sleep like that until i was in my mid-twenties
Same here on the lucid dreams, I didn’t even know it had a name, and I was surprised when people said that they don’t control their dreams.
But the hiccups… Mate, you’re a wizard.
Very fast reflexes and I can see in the dark far better than most people.
I had never realized that my eyes were different until my compulsory miltary service. I could reasily read maps when others couldn’t see shit and I never stumbled during night training in the forest.
Fast reflexes are generally pretty cool to havel, but it’s not fun when a knife falls off the kitchen table and it is impossible to stop your own hand trying to catch it.
My “learned talent” is fixing mechanical devices. When I was 6 or 7 I took apart and fixed the family VCR so I could finish watching the Smurfs. My mom found me studying the jammed mechanism, with all the parts lying on the living room carpet. She had a fit and wanted to collect the parts away, I started crying and told her that I’ll never get it back together if she messes up their places. She watched as I released the stuck tape wheel and reassembled the device. And it worked.
I’ve fixed countless devices with just visual analysis and pure intuition after that.
I am a really quick reader compared to most people. Doesn’t sound that amazing and it’s certainly not unique, but it comes really handy. Always helped me with exams, as I got some precious minutes more to actually work instead of reading. I can go through books and articles really fast. Retention is not amazing, I’d say it’s about the same as when most people read in their normal speed.
I really envy the people that can read quickly and retain everything. But I am also content with being relatively quick.
