DO YOU HAVE A SUPER POWER?

[Duchess]

I have a couple, I don't need an alarm to wake-up and I can read lips.

[rothschild]

When Trump's lips are moving I know he's lying.

[Clang McFly]

I have a good memory. Song lyrics, my credit card number,bank account number, routing number, birthdays of friends I hang out with irl, etc.

I also don't need an alarm to wake up. I'm a light sleeper and I get up to pee several times during the night.


I tried to read lips once, girl said I was sexually harassing her.

[username]

My “super power” (which is likely on a swift decline) was always my brain combined with common sense.

Back in the day I was labeled “gifted” which didn’t feel like much of a gift because I was over thinking/analyzing things. Fortunately I did enough drugs or something early on where I killed a bunch of brain cells and I didn’t let my thinking ruin me. And there’s common sense. It’s such a “no brainer” but it’s amazing how many people I meet (who might be otherwise very smart/well educated) who don’t have it.

I interviewed hundreds of people as an HR Director and many of them were brilliant but had very low common sense or emotional I.Q. Dismissed.

I appreciate my brain but I’m glad I didn’t totally become a victim of it.

BTW, not bragging and not claiming some intellectual superiority now. Being “smart” both served me and didn’t over the years. I’m happy that I’m past the age of caring too much (and don’t feel that weight).

If u don’t understand, ur probably stupid, lol.

I’m sure my daughter’s existential OCD has and always will be a result of her being almost too smart for this world. But she’s doing well for now.

[sally]

Not a super power, but I had severe OCD as a kid. I had to think my mind out of it, but I still have a slight case. I don't have any super powers, but I can blind draw. I can look at something, close my eyes and sketch it perfectly. I can even do people.

[username]

Not a super power, but I had severe OCD as a kid. I had to think my mind out of it, but I still have a slight case. I don't have any super powers, but I can blind draw. I can look at something, close my eyes and sketch it perfectly. I can even do people.

Ohhh, that’s cool (your abilities now). 

Sorry about the OCD. My daughter has learned she CAN’T think her way out of hers. It’s just a never ending process of thinking about stuff and she can’t shut it off. For her, she’s found the only way out is by distracting herself and living and doing things despite her inclination to just curl up with her thoughts and try to “think things through”. She can’t.

A few months ago her OCD was bugging her and she got into some stage where she was debating with herself about showering. Was it vanity? Did she really NEED to shower or was that some social pressure she felt? It became a moral/existential question for her. She was spinning but she showered DESPITE her thoughts at the time.

Win but sucks.

[sally]

My son has anxiety and he can't think his way out of it either. It's to the point where it's daily, he's giving me anxiety. He realizes it's not rational, but it happens anyway. He doesn't want to take pills for it, but I don't know what else to do.

[username]

She told me at the time about her thinking and then, for a few weeks, told me every time she showered.

She’s so different from when OCD was debilitating for her as a teen but she still has struggles (she’s just better able to deal with them).

She told me recently though that she hopes that one day there’s a proven cure/treatment because she (obviously) hates that it’s always kind of hovering in her life (still).

[username]

My son has anxiety and he can't think his way out of it either. It's to the point where it's daily, he's giving me anxiety. He realizes it's not rational, but it happens anyway. He doesn't want to take pills for it, but I don't know what else to do.

Yeah…my daughter benefits from an SSRI and I think another medication (not a benzo or anything) but she refused them until she finally didn’t around age 20. 

But…like I said, she still has struggles; can’t imagine how much harder those might be if she refused medication (actually, I can…that was her all through her teen years).

I hope your son reconsiders. I took Zoloft for generalized anxiety for many years and it was helpful (and I never felt “altered”…just better). Less tense/on edge.

I know a lot of people who think we’re “over medicated” as a society. Yeah, great. But if it’s helpful, it’s helpful.

[BigMark]

The old lady opened her towel and shouted SUPER PUSSY!, the old man said i'll take the soup.