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
i can stop my own hiccups at will
Wow! That is insane!
Oh yeah I can do this too ¬‿¬
That’s pretty cool
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
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 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
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 many thinks 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 can tell if a person is a piece of shit or not fairly easily on first meeting. I can usually sus someone out in a short amount of time interaction wise. I also have a high pain tolerance.
Do you have cptsd? Both of these things correlate really highly with it.
I would say so
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 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.
i got the “oh wow my cat usually hates men” gene, does that count?
I got that one too. I wonder if in a lot of cases animals really can be decent judges of character, when in comparison to their person. Picking up threatening body language, etc. So maybe we’re just the rare guys who aren’t complete assholes.
idk about that lol, i just know that skittish animals don’t want to be approached, you let them approach when they want to instead
That, too lol
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’m good with faces, horrible with names. Like the other day I got groceries delivered and I recognized the driver as a girl I went to school with over 20 years ago (she was an upperclasswoman while I was a freshman). I wish I was better with names though, I will forget your name after a 20 min conversation.
You can even recognize faces after that long? To me people change a lot if time has passed and I can’t see them in the same way. Maybe I read vibes more than their face I don’t know.
Sure can it’s real weird. Like I know you, not sure where from, but I know your face.
I bet I could take most of Hexbear 1v1
