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So who has a 'Superpower' - some weird thing you can do that others can't.

Paul

After reading the discussion on synesthesia, I thought it would be nice to find out what other weird, interesting or even useless ability we all might have.

I have an almost Jack Reacher like clock ability in my head. If I set the alarm for the morning, I will always wake up a few minutes before it goes off - I am NEVER awakened by the alarm no mater how tired I was when I went to bed.

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  • I can spend a few minutes looking at a map of a city I've never been to, often as the plane is on final approach to land, then pick up a hire car, not look at the map again or switch on the GPS, and drive out of town on the right route even if it's a big city and it's an hour so's drive to the interstate. 

    I can usually even cope with diversions. 

    For years I actually didn't realise other people couldn't do this; I knew I was good at it, but I thought only elderly people or very inexperienced drivers couldn't do it at all. 

    I used to travel a lot on my own, so I guess I had no comparator, but later on started travelling sometimes with other people and only then did it dawn on me that this was really unusual.  Colleagues thought it was some kind of black magic and it became a 'thing' in the company.  

    I'm not sure this has anything to do with autism, but who knows?  

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  • I can spend a few minutes looking at a map of a city I've never been to, often as the plane is on final approach to land, then pick up a hire car, not look at the map again or switch on the GPS, and drive out of town on the right route even if it's a big city and it's an hour so's drive to the interstate. 

    I can usually even cope with diversions. 

    For years I actually didn't realise other people couldn't do this; I knew I was good at it, but I thought only elderly people or very inexperienced drivers couldn't do it at all. 

    I used to travel a lot on my own, so I guess I had no comparator, but later on started travelling sometimes with other people and only then did it dawn on me that this was really unusual.  Colleagues thought it was some kind of black magic and it became a 'thing' in the company.  

    I'm not sure this has anything to do with autism, but who knows?  

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