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submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by axont@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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?

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I feel like my sense of balance is definitely a bit above average. I don't think I necessarily trained myself in a specific way, I just liked climbing trees and other things like that when I was young. I also did various balance-involving sports and hobbies over the years, mostly because they were fun for me. I'm not like gymnast-level or anything like that, but I've been told by friends and acquaintances many times that my sense of balance is quite good, usually after they see me do some kind of balancing movement very reflexively.

Probably a factor in why I'm such sicko-biker too.

I guess you could add climbing and being OK with heights in there as well. I'm also fairly competent with tying knots, but not really educated in tons of different kinds of knots.

Oh, and recognizing voice actors is pretty easy for me. Like if I've heard the actor's voice before, I can usually figure it out. I'm very much a deep listener with music too, so maybe the sound and balance thing are kind of related, both being ear-specific abilities. Never thought of that before. The listening thing can be kind of annoying at times too. I'm often the only person that can hear some subtle noise, and feel like a weirdo trying to track down some strange background sound. But I usually can find the source eventually.

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