I think I can be funny, but not everybody gets my sense of humor. I talk/rant a lot, and can be a bit incoherent at times, but then I say *it* and the other person smiles or even laughs, and I know I did it. I was bright, and witty.

I also have an ear for music and sounds. I can carry a tune quite easily, although I don't have the greatest of voices, and if my voice won't let me, I just know. I don't carry on ruining the song, I just stop.

Link to this 'superpower`is my ability to change my voice. I can switch intonation and speak like other people (imaginary or not). I used to do that all the time when I was reading dialogues to my students, which always cracked them up. For the same reason, I am good at imitating other accents and famous characters. I've been told many, many times that my English accent doesn't sound Spanish at all, and that's because I can reproduce sounds I am not used to hear.

I have a strange visual memory. My memory sucks (really, really sucks) but I know what part of a page a sentence from a book occupies.

My really bad memory makes me an extremely forgiving person. I forgive and forget, and I am not resentful at all. Which is nice but dangerous sometimes, since I end up forgetting why I got mad at certain people and can't notice repetitive patterns in behaviour unless someone else points at them for me. Which is why I always tell other people when someone upsets me.

Crackers, DH has that same superpower.

Janet, triathlon is for you! We have a saying in our house, "why be good at one sport when you can be mediocre at three?"

Wonderful thread! I enjoyed reading each and every answer. Such a fun way to get to know people!

My superpower is making people cry - not just the easy criers - I'm talking grown men, cynical people, tough people, funny people. I don't set out to make them cry... but with me, all roads lead to tears. (I would have WAY fewer friends if they knew this going in...) I'm also hilarious, but they often can't see that through the tears.

My super secret superpower is that I'm emotionally indestructible. I open my heart to everyone, and often get it bruised and sometimes broken, but I keep doing it because I secretly know that nothing can ever destroy me. If you know something isn't going to kill you, why not risk a little pain to take that leap?

Irene, I can totally relate about the visual memory thing! I can remember what part of a page a sentence is on, too. And I also have not the best general memory. I'm absentminded and forgetful. People make jokes about it. Often. It's actually embarrassing. I'm pretty sure that when I'm a granny and I get dementia, no one's even going to notice.

I'm quite good at academic stuff, though. I'm an A student. But if I don't use the information after the exam, it just falls right out of my head.

I don't think I have any real superpowers. I'm merely OK at a whole lot of things -- running, singing, dancing, playing piano, sporty things that involve coordination, all that kind of stuff. I am good at drawing, like I said, and also painting and sculpture. Lots of people are, though. When I write, I know where the punctuation goes, and I'm good at spelling (probably a quirk of visual memory again -- when I say words, I also "see" them in my head). People always give me their cover letters to edit. And I'm nice. I really am. I'm sure I seem strident and opinionated on this forum, but in real life, I'm warm and funny and nice. For what it's worth.

Read through the other comments. I am envious of Runcarla's stamina, Gaylene's ability to win at chess by planning many moves ahead, and of Angie's ability to not get slop all over her white clothes!

Such great responses! Deb, I am amazed at your body's perseverance!

My super power actually frightens me. My peripheral vision will always detect when an insect/pest is nearby! I do not want to know this. I would rather be ignorant of their existence since I usually gasp or wince then squirm in fear at the sight of them!

I can tell time without a watch. Basically, I can pretty much always guess what time it is (given some reference points - not if I wake up in the middle of the night). When concious, I have a good sense of how much time has passed.

I can stay quite still and calm when a wasp or bee buzzes around me. Recently on a patio a persistent wasp was bugging our table and the one next to us. The woman at that table was freaking out and would keep batting the wasp about, often over to me. Then she'd watch while I went all zen while it buzzed around my face. I think I was irritating her as much as the wasp was....

These super powers have proved fairly useless.

Startling confession. I was so excited by this topic, wrote out a long response, then deleted it before posting because I was so uncomfortable. I have a harder time acknowledging my strengths out loud than I know.

I had three: decisiveness, warmth and my odd narrative based memory.

(Thank you, Mary and Suz. Awfully gracious of you. Much love). xo

I can pretty much match any color from memory at any time. I've always been that way.

In terms of fashion, I am an idiot savant of shoes.

As a very very small child I could recognize and identify all the chocolates in a box of mixed See's by sight. It was trotted out as sort of a parlor trick at family gatherings.

"Powers" all, but perhaps not "super"! heh... I'm probably lucky the autism/aspergers spectrum was not so well honed diagnostically when I attended public school

I have the superpower to remember a conversation/narrative word by word after it was said to me/after i read smth. My kindergarden teacher was impressed when i re-told a story she has read to us a week later, without a book, keeping even the intonation! fairly useless superpower, if you don't count the many times i'm replaying plots of books or conversation i had in my head.
Also, i had this superpower of being funny and sarcastic in a nice way.
And i have the superpower to be liked by people. Many people feel safe and open up around me fairly quick.

My superpower is musical chords: I can identify which ones belong where. Handy when trying to accompany something with no written chords. Painful when listening to an accompanist and a part-singer who aren't on the same page...

Also, I have an ear for languages--can pick them up quickly, can get my mouth to make the sounds that aren't in my native language (except the one in Arabic that is produced between the root of your tongue and the back of your lower throat--not going to happen). I'm a bit of a natural mimic that way; but I think the flip side is, I can't fake an accent for the life of me (in English, I mean); I just echo what I am hearing around me.