Do you have any weird abilities you never trained or learned? I don’t mean like superpowers, I mean more mundane things like how some people can remember long strings of numbers or how some people have perfect pitch. I bet some of y’all can fart on command.
I can attest that I have a 100% success rate in determining if a person is evil within seconds of meeting them. I don’t know what that’s called but it’s like the thing Bruce Willis does in Unbreakable. I’ve successfully identified people I’ve thought were going to be murderers several times and I was correct. I’ve been able to identify racists, a guy who neglected his kids, and I was the only person in my entire family to get weird feelings about one of my uncles. He ended up getting convicted of fraud because he was stealing life insurance payouts at his insurance job. I just go off vibes and maybe I’m ignoring all the false positives I get but anecdotally I’ve always been correct about my weird feelings, and I often detect evil in people who are otherwise well-liked among others before they do the evil thing. I just feel it even when there’s no noteworthy evidence I dunno.
So can y’all do anything cool?
perfect pitch! but i’ve been playing instruments for over a decade now so i probably learned it along the way
I have upsetting news for y’all.
The evil person detection skill is learned through trauma. You’re recognizing patterns in human behaviour based on people who have hurt you.
It’s an example of hypervigilance, but it really is almost prescient. Traumatized people learn to recognize and avoid dangerous people based on subtle and not-so-subtle cues that others simply don’t notice and need high speed cameras to even document
I am not upset by what you have said, I have been aware that I can read people super easily because of trauma. I have never been treated for it. I don’t think it can ever be fixed.
Thank you for letting others know that it is because of trauma.
Well fuck
Guess I should probably go back to therapy
My unique talent is that if I’m shopping in a grocery store and I need to stand still for just a moment (eg to check my phone), no matter where I move to I’ll be standing exactly in front of items someone needs to grab right now.
I can always tell what time it is to within about 15 minutes accuracy without needing a clock. Of course this is an absolutely useless ability in a world where every gadget has a clock built-in.
Are you able to sleep for really precise amounts of time?
Weirdly yes. If I set an alarm, even if it’s not on a schedule I normally set it for (for example getting up early for a flight) I’ll wake up maybe 10-15 minutes before the alarm goes off.
I’m jelly. When I sleep I’m out.
If I sleep I’m also out
Ah yeah i got the same thing. If i intend to wake up at most arbitrary times unless its too early or too late i will wake up precisely 10 minutes before my alarm
Idk I have the ability to turn any situation into anxiety
Like for yourself or everyone involved?
First one, then the other
Just myself thankfully
I too have the detect evil spell and it frustrates me when others dont see it. Other than that I have absurdly good recall down to remembering conversations I had years ago down to time of day, position, lighting, room layout, weather. Its completely useless other than making the regrets of my life significantly more painful to remember.
It’s frustrating for me because I simply don’t have the words to say why I think a person is evil. They just give me a bad feeling and seem frightening. It’s not a rational thing at all and if I try explaining why someone seems bad then i seem like a judgemental butthole.
But like can you remember good memories or is it just traumatic stuff
I envy your ability, even with the associated drawbacks.
I have a question, can you distinguish between someone who wouldn’t hurt you without a reason, but wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire unless there was something in it for them?
I can’t really predict what a person is going to do, I just get a bad feeling about them. It’s not a precise skill. At most I can maybe guess how evil they are, like I can guess if they’re simply a person who will openly say slurs versus someone like a murderer. But the only tangible information I can determine from a person is if they should be avoided.
I remember good things as well. Many things like what i used to do at nursery and arguing with adults about their flawed silly logic (i was insufferable). Most of my memory space is instant recall of every single video game i have played and even ones i havent for my perfect guessthegame score.
I taught myself to remember long strings of numbers. It’s a skill I have not been able translate to anything useful, but I think it relates to my other, more useful skills, navigation and visual memory.
My method is to imagine myself traveling a path, like walking from home to the grocery store. Then along the way I assign each digit to something I’d see along the path, like a stop sign would get the number 8. Then I visualize the 8 on the stop sign, and so on. When I need to remember the number I walk the path in my mind and I see the numbers.
Apparently I have an amazing memory for media and can recall the whole plot of any media I have seen.
But remembering I have a hair appointment? Forget about it!
i can wiggle my ears
One day when I was a little kid I was watching Mister Rogers and he said “Can you wiggle your ears?” At first all I managed to do was move my forehead but - man - I practiced like the dickens until I got my ears moving.
Ninja edit. I can still do it but not much. Ah - disappointing.
I have a permenant sanctuary spell cast on me. Nobody has ever attacked me and my presence tends to deescalate situations. I’ve walked into situations where a guest is actively threatening my coworkers (taking swings and lunging at them) and I can walk up to them and make them leave.
I am the most senior person in security outside of management, and everyone else has some sort of story where someone threatened them with physical harm and I have nothing like that, just the occasional case of transphobia. Those cases are also few and far between.
Brb coming to fite you
You say that now but you haven’t felt my aura. I’ve been farming it for decades.
Cincinnatus of aura farming
I’ve successfully identified people I’ve thought were going to be murderers several times
How many murderers have you met?
I’ve met three, all three before they killed someone. All three were cases of people killing a family member too. Each time I met them I felt a very aggressive fear in my gut. I also couldn’t look them directly in the eyes or anywhere around their face really. I met one because he was a regular at a store I worked at. The other two were also clients from a city job where I worked with people who were often on parole, like a public service job helping them fill out forms and apply for jobs and stuff.
I remember being the most wary I’ve ever felt around them. The only thing I know to compare it to is when you’re in the woods and suddenly notice a snake hissing at you. Like a primordial sort of danger sense. I remember being really weirded out by how they smiled, and remember thinking their eyes didn’t show emotion like most people.
I’m also willing to admit that I’m misremembering details because they would later kill someone and ask they stick out in my head. But I also remember my coworker telling me I would tense up and my voice would shake around one client. One time she came into the room and asked if everything was cool since I was so visibly nervous.
Statistically, you’ve met dozens.
Yeah, I have the cptsd sense for dangerous people too. I have never dated or trysted with anyone who was capable of hurting others without it bothering them enough to want to make things right. I am incapable of feeling romantic or sexual attraction to such a person, even if I notice they are entertaining and/or physically appealing.
Is my demisexuality also cptsd?I have exceptional spacial sense. I taught myself how to pattern draft for sewing without any teachers or reference materials besides examining existing garments.
I’m ace and I’m hoping that’s not a cptsd thing
Hearing the high pitched electric whine of broken electronics. It’s a bit like the noise of a tv when it’s turned on but nothing is being displayed. I just think it means I haven’t messed up my hearing as badly as some people. I also have mild tinnitus so idk what’s going on there tho
I also have mild tinnitus and can hear the circuits scream.
It does actually sound excruciating for the machine, like, it’s being torn apart electron-by-electron
Yes. There was a printer recently I heard, in someone’s home. It was in standby, and it just… It sounded like a dialup modem being disemboweled. It was horrifying.
So can y’all do anything cool?
No. But I can be very good at very quickly making strangers incredibly angry.
Do you do this on purpose or what
When I was younger - I could be an asshole. But I finally mellowed and I haven’t used my “skill” in about 20 years.
I can fix electronics just by touching a device.
Coworker goes mad because the software won’t work? I go over, click two times, there, it works.
Kids are crying because their cheapo China toy will not blink any more? I just hold it and it works again.
Wife has a rage attack because the Bluetooth mouse won’t connect? I just turn it off and on again and it connects no problem.
