What is your superpower? (friends, years, troubles, best)

[RiverBird]

Originally Posted by Harpaint

I'm a painter. I paint in watercolor and sell almost every painting as soon as it's completed.

I'd love to see your work! If you have a website can you DM me?

[WellShoneMoon]

I'm very good at public speaking, and I've always enjoyed it. I'd much rather be talking to a large group of people than try to make conversation with one or two, especially if I don't know them.

[Garthur]

I'm good at accumulating news, financial, world, and local. I spend all day watching, reading, and deciphering the news. I'm good at "connecting the dots" of news stories. After collecting the news and connecting the dots then I attempt to perceive what this means going forward.

I can sometimes predict what will happen before it happens just based on the news of the past. This allows me to make well informed decisions.

[Avalon08]

Taking charge in crisis situations, pulling a game plan together of everything that has to be done, being really detail-oriented, thinking through all the "what-if" scenarios, not letting anything slip through the cracks.

Being a good conversationalist -- I can start a convo with anyone, always asking them about themselves and genuinely listening to their answers.

Decorating.

Good memory and powers of observation. Noticing details. Sometimes this ruins movie-watching for the people around me, LOL, say if I notice someone's hair looks different and it's still the same scene.

[vicky3vicky]

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.

[coschristi]

I suppose that mine would be my Hyperlexia, a.k.a. precocious reading ability. It is, however, not without some disadvantages; it is almost 100% associated with Autism & is horribly distracting.

Mine is atypical in that it did not plateau after adolescence. Some of the “pro’s” are:

- Reading at the second grade level at age three.

- Reading at high-school graduate level before the end of the third grade.

- Testing at age 16 scored my level of reading comprehension to be in the top 2% of four-rear college graduates.

- Read the entire Bible (king-James version) in less than 4 days.

- Articles scored as “sixteen minutes to read” are read in about four minutes, “three minutes to read” take less than 60 seconds.
- Something new I just discovered this week while helping one of my teenagers with an assignment: A page on the FBI website regarding encrypted messages offers a “for fun “ encrypted message they state is the “hardest quiz so far” that they have offered.
I cracked it in less than two minutes. It was linked to a page regarding the 40+ year unsolved case of the “Zodiac Killer” & one of his 420 symbol un-cracked messages. It looked impossible at first but then I saw a pattern emerge but got too creeped out to apply it!

I’m fairly sure the FBI wouldn’t consider the hyperlexic abilities of a forty eight year old housewife as very useful but it’s as close to having a “superpower” as I am going to get!

[ladyalicemore]

Sometimes I think it's my stubbornness.

I have twice stubbornly refused to die on schedule, and once I love a person, I will persist no matter what. (I am pretty choosy about liking or loving people, but once I make a choice, I stick by it.)

Librarians rock! Love the posts here about finding things.

Robert Heinlein, the sf writer, once said that "library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs."

[seeriously]

I can write through my feelings and let go. I can walk through my feelings and figure things out. I can still type over 80 wpm but why, what's the hurry? Oh, and I can 'leap tall buildings in a single bound'.

[orngkat]

I can draw anything though I never followed an artistic career path. I can organize and simplify any mess. I can intuit people and situations. That's all.

[NYgal1542]

There are a lot of talented people here. I am not one of them.

The only claim to fame is I have survived this far.