What's your secret skill?
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Lock picking. It started when I was a teenager that always forgot my house key. Eventually was able to pick the lock. After that, I figured out how to pick several different types of locks. It's fun!
I have an eidetic musical memory. I can memorize lyrics within 2 times of listening or reading them. I just recently figured out this wasn’t normal.
I can read backwards and upside down with little trouble. I can also read really really quickly
I'm left-handed, and read that Galileo was left handed and wrote backwards from right to left. I developed that talent and turned in a German paper in high school written backwards from right to left. I told my German teacher to hold it up to a bright light or a mirror, but he was not amused.
I can play by ear on several instruments. My friends can't do it and say it's extremely impressive how I can just hear a song and play it. Most of the time, it's usually close to the right way of playing it if I look up the actual way to play it.
Does driving a manual count?
Not a skill I use anymore but... Emotional manipulation.
I can detect people's insecurities just by looking at them. I can make anyone so angry they hit me (or someone else) or break down crying.
On the other end of the spectrum, I can make any angry or emotional person calm.
Nowadays, I use my skill to let other people know when they are being manipulated.
At 6'5 with a lineman's build I can usually walk into most venues without presenting a ticket if I act like I'm supposed to be there. They all just assume I'm one of the bouncers/security. I always have a ticket anyways, but it's a random game my buddies like to play. It helps if I wear a black or yellow shirt.
When I was little my grandmother used to tell me I was empathic. I didn’t understand at the time what that meant. But I do now. It’s like I can feel what other people are going thru in a general matter of speaking. If a friend is going thru a rough time but they are throwing out happy signals left and right… I knew to reach out to them and give them a hug. I guess another term for it is being hypersensitive. I can’t being around negative people because I feel it amplified and it’s awful. Friends say I always know the right thing to say at the right time. I’m not sure how, it just comes natural to me.
The other thing I used to be able to do was smoke a cigarette with my toes.
Wait. What? You just drop the smoking with your toes tidbit & walk away? That is wild!
I can write completely backwards with my left hand, like I start at the right going to left and all the letters are flipped.
I can also do that thing where you mouth a word but when you're closing your mouth from mouthing the word you actually say the word, making it sound like the sound was delayed for a second
More of a talent than a skill, but I can laugh EXACTLY like Krusty the Clown.
I can lie through a polygraph.
3 things. I can read people really well. I can finish their sentences even if they aren’t obvious. I can also detect emotions and find out whether or not I’m being used. Even if i have only known the person for a few days. Secondly, I can make myself “invisible”. I have literally been marked absent to classes multiple times because of it. This one time i was a favorite student and the teacher would always call on me. one day i got sick of it. my mom had to call the school and tell them i wasn’t absent.
Finally, i am a trickster. i can steal and lie and get away with it even if ppl are right there.
Poetry, writing. Reading someones emotions not all the time but a lot of the time. Tree climbing.
I can close my nostrils with my nose muscles only. Very useful in smelly situations.
I can stand on my toes. This has led to my love of dance, and music. (Dancing has to have music.)
Wait like curl your toes and stand up? Or just stand up on them? Cause I can curl my toes and stand on em sometimes I feel like I’m not human cause I’m so different.
I’m I have a parkour talent!!! One day I started to do flips on my trampoline and started to land them and then I got into parkour and I did play a lot of parkour games like Vector and Assassins creed so I learned a lot of parkour moves from those games. So I did some parkour around my nearest city and I just started jumping off of places and rolling and vaulting and I became far from a parkour amateur or beginner!!! Not yet a pro but I just found my hidden talent!
I can touch my right ear with my left hand by reaching around my back. No one else I know can do it.
I can also sing and talk while inhaling the entire time, I don't know anyone who can do that either.
I can get along with just about anyone. I was voted “Most Engaging” at my workplace.
I have an odd ability to find things, especially if the misplaced object is not mine. It might take a minute or two, but most of the time I have found it. I also work lawn care & have accidentally found grown over slabs, irrigation access boxes, all sorts of things.
My non-super super power is people open up to me. About EVERYTHING. It freaks me out the things I hear.
I’m kind of like a detective. I can use strings of information to form a conclusion that’s usually correct and hard to get to. I can also figure out combinations by looking at keypads whose buttons have the kind of paint that fades over time. I can also lie my way out of every situation
I’m kind of like a detective. I can use strings of information to form a conclusion that’s usually correct and hard to get to. I can also figure out combinations by looking at keypads whose buttons have the kind of paint that fades over time. I can also lie my way out of every situation
