What is your superpower? (call, London, move, respect)
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I started this thread way back in 2016. I enjoyed reading all of the posts. I hoped for it to continue, but I suppose that most everyone reading it then contributed, and so it died. We have new readers now, so I am posing this question again.
As I posted in the initial post, my superpower is mundane. I am able to find things, in stores, in closets, in my house (usually). I was good at this as a librarian as well.
I think someone posted before that it was parallel parking, and that is the superpower I truly envy!
I'd say conversation, one to one. I feel like I can really listen and usually find something that another person and I can talk about. I think I have a broad and shallow fund of knowledge and there's always something in common for conversation.
I am a little old lady, but I have always been able to do crazy "Arnold Schwartzenegger, eat your heart out" moves with my pectoral muscles. EVEN after a double mastectomy.
I also seem to be good at comforting sad people. Not sure how, as I have terrible social skills and have no clue what to say or do, but people have always told me that I am good at it.
Love the muscle control thing. I can do the same thing with my boobs. I guess it comes from years of ballet lessons and lifting 3 lb weights. It's called isolations - some folks can really concentrate on particular muscles.
Research. I've been doing it for decades, long before there was an Internet. The Internet has made it harder in some ways since I frequently have to determine what's real and what's fake. I help people whenever I can.
An online friend came down with a mysterious malady. He visited more than 30 specialists who ran many tests but came up empty. He was losing muscle strength to the point where he was unable to work but why? No one knew. He needed the real life equivalent of Dr. Gregory House.
I found a medical-mystery specialist in New York. My friend had the courage to make the journey from Texas and have Dr. Bolte do an extensive workup. The culprit? The new memory foam mattress my friend and his wife had gotten the year before. They got rid of it and replaced it with a cotton-stuffed futon. The symptoms gradually went away and he returned to robust health. My friend tells people I saved his life. That's probably an overstatement, as he was the one to follow through and make the trip. He saved his own life. I just pointed him in the right direction.
Research. I've been doing it for decades, long before there was an Internet. The Internet has made it harder in some ways since I frequently have to determine what's real and what's fake. I help people whenever I can.
An online friend came down with a mysterious malady. He visited more than 30 specialists who ran many tests but came up empty. He was losing muscle strength to the point where he was unable to work but why? No one knew. He needed the real life equivalent of Dr. Gregory House.
I found a medical-mystery specialist in New York. My friend had the courage to make the journey from Texas and have Dr. Bolte do an extensive workup. The culprit? The new memory foam mattress my friend and his wife had gotten the year before. They got rid of it and replaced it with a cotton-stuffed futon. The symptoms gradually went away and he returned to robust health. My friend tells people I saved his life. That's probably an overstatement, as he was the one to follow through and make the trip. He saved his own life. I just pointed him in the right direction.
My super power is super memory power. I've always been a reader and have a freakish ability to recall most things I've read after one reading. I never did any studying in school, yet I got straight A's. I read the text, I take the test, I get an A. Easy peasy. I remember things from my childhood that no one else remembers, like the layout of homes that I lived in as a toddler. I can draw a map from memory of the town I lived in up to age 7, and I've never been there since that time. I can remember the names of my neighbors when I was a child. I can look at a phone number and then dial it later that day without writing it down. I'm the person you want on your team in a trivia contest. I remember whole conversations from months or years ago. My DH finds that particularly annoying!
There's a reference to my friend in that article: "The Adventure of the Chemically Sensitive Sleeper"
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