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useless talents
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My grandfather and I spell talk, been doing it since I was about 8 years old. Basically, it's just spelling outloud and having a conversation with a person by spelling what you want to say to them, really fast. It sounds easy but it really isn't. I've tried doing it with other people and they just don't get it. Also tried to teach my husband and he wasn't getting it at all lol. My grandfather and I are the only ones in the family who can do it and it's something only he and I share 🙂
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My grandfather and I spell talk, been doing it since I was about 8 years old. Basically, it's just spelling outloud and having a conversation with a person by spelling what you want to say to them, really fast. It sounds easy but it really isn't. I've tried doing it with other people and they just don't get it. Also tried to teach my husband and he wasn't getting it at all lol. My grandfather and I are the only ones in the family who can do it and it's something only he and I share 🙂
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I can sort myself to the group who remembers useless things as well. For example, at the university I remembered where I sat at each exam for a long time.
I didn't remember the exact table, but nevertheless if I was in the front or the back section, and then if I was somewhere in the left, right or middle, back or front in that section. I could recall where I sat the first exams in year one five years later. I guess it's a bit strange, since the others didn't even seem to remember which auditory we were in.
I've as been "used" as a phonebook since I can remember numbers pretty well. But I guess that proves to make me more useful than useless:).
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I just remembered/realized another one. I can "count" sounds. Like, if there's a series of tapping, such as a plate falling to the ground, or something breaking, I can count how many times it hit very quickly.
I… actually can't really think of a time that this has ever really come in handy. I just seem to be able to determine how many times a sound happens in a short period of time. It's weird Oo;
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Runemist34 – I have a friend who is an audiologist and she has not been able to 'count' sounds from birth, and as a result she had to undergo speech therapy as a child. It's actually very integral that we can measure sounds in speech unconciously as it relates to cadence and stuff (I dont understand much about it, but it's very integral to her job as she has to make sure children who come in to be tested can do it – so apparently we all need to be able to, just unconciously!).
I can make very realistic baby and turkey sounds. Though, as you'll see in this video, even incredible unrealistic and poor-effort turkey sounds are all that might be required for this to be even remotely useful! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJ-NJ7pFSc
My friend is so inflexible in her muscles (can't even touch her toes), but she can put her legs behind her back front-ways (opening at the hips, inner thighs along her ribs), and put the backs of her knees over her shoulders (feet in front of her face) and walk around on her hands. Useful for horror-themed zombie photo-shoots only.
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LOL! That's an awsome thread!
I have very sensitive nose – I identify people by smell (I can tell who is in the office by the sniffing the air), I know who was in the toilet before me by the smell of their poop (or whether it was a man or a woman if I don't know the person), and I can tell when people are sick by smelling their breath from across the room.
I remember words with colors (which makes it really difficult to distinguish between words with similar colors).
I can raise each one of my eyebrows separately
I can make my butt chicks bounce really quickly 🙂
I can make a little tube with my tounge, rotate it 180' to each side and tie cherry stems with no hands 🙂
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I WANT A USELESS TALENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *walks off stage*!!!! lol!!!!
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LillyBilly, do you have synaesthesia? Because I do, and I identify colors by sound.
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So fun to read all of your “useless talents!” I can put my feet behind my neck so I look like a pretzel!
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I can write in cursive, upside down and backwards. So, if you look in a mirror and stand on your head you can read what I write!
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I can write upside down and backwards, too. I can also write with both my feet, though it’s not pretty. I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue, and put sunscreen on my back by myself. I also have incredible spacial awareness like chem, but this has proved more useful than useless (i have that same knack for watching a move and knowing how to do it/get into it and can explain it to others). I can also accurately pick up accents, which allows me to speak foreign languages like a native. I’ve also picked up british accents while speaking to people, not realized it, and had them get offended- I start out speaking like an american and end up sounding like them! This is totally unconscious and I don’t do it on purpose; in fact I have to work very hard NOT to do it.
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I attribute male/female to inanimate objects. Each day of the week or days in a month has a color attached to it as well. Like when I think of a calender it isn't M-S its different colors and thats how I know the day of the week, hard to explain. Smells have colors as well and vice versa lol I have pretty bad synaesthesia 🙂 it can make it really hard to communicate my thoughts to people as well since I think in smells/colours and sometimes I can't translate it into words. My husband thinks its funny because sometimes i will seriously bust out stuff like "if only you could smell what I was thinking" lol
I pick up on body language cues entirely differently from most people too. Like if someone smiles at me with a lot of teeth showing I feel threatened etc. I connect with animals more than people, go figure 🙂
I can also walk into a room and immediately know how every person is feeling. I pick up on moods so easily it makes it hard to be around large groups of people. Once again why i prefer hanging out with animals more than people. And yes I admit to having the propensity to turn into a crazy cat lady lol
I wouldn't call any of these talents however, just things that make it very hard to function in the everyday social world
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@megan12: I'm a speed reader too! I can read about 500 pages in an hour or so. The way I describe it to people is like this- when I look at a tree i don't say the word tree in my head i just know what it is. I do that with words, i don't repeat them in my head i just look at them and know what they are. Is that how you read too? With no real internal dialogue?
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I can cross 1 eye and leave the other eye looking straight. LMAO, how is that for useless! hehehe
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I can do that too!!!
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Jivete! I can whinny, too!! I get so many horses talking back to me, too. Hahah. I my friends with horses love it, 'cause when I neigh at their horses, they (the horses) become so alert and look great in photos. It's well fun. 🙂
I can communicate well with most animals..to be honest. Alpaca is a fun one. 😛
Not such a fun one, but I've got a really keen sense on who has had, or is (less impressive) depression/depressed.
I can read backwards very easily. Also can say words backwards easily. My favourite is Playstation.. Noitatsyalp is an awesome word. 😛
This thread is awesome haha.
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@CreativityBySteffie – I don't know, maybe… The image at the top of the wikipedia article about synesthesia is similar to how I see words, only my colors are really "washed out" and what they write about numbers having a location in space seems right.
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@Juliana Dentata Being really sensitive to how people feel sound interesting. I can never tell how anyone around me is feeling – I just project whatever is going in my head onto them https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
But I can see how it can create a problem – I guess many of our normal interactions depend on being able to hide our immediate feelings about things…
Also SPEED READING – YEAH! I want this!
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I can shake my eyeballs, my husband thinks its creepy and tells me to stop. LOL
Also, I can turn my feet in to point towards each other and then Continue until they point slightly backwards as well. Completely Useless, Since when dancing a turn OUT is generally desired.
I can also do the controlled eardrums thing. -
on yeah, I also have the alphabet memorized backwards and can recite it faster that way!
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i have a photographic memory-very useful in school 🙂 i can look at my notes 5 mins before a test and remember exactly where everything was and how it read, etc. lol
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I can whistle continuously and pretty well and I can replicate a dog’s bark perfectly!! Haha, I always fool my dog with that one
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Oh I can also shake my eyes and flare my nostrils really wide and like… Forever. Pretty useless except for making faces, I have the upper hand there lol
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@LillyBilly @Steffie I also have synaethesia!
It is kinda useful though because if I am trying to remember a word/place/name I focus the colors come through first and I focus on them until I get the letters. Like I might remember blues and purples and remember there has to have been e's in a name because E is purple. Sometimes this works with numbers too (like six is red) but to a far lesser extent.
I knew a girl that said she would get a taste in her mouth with different words and letters!
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i am a master of disguise, as you can tell by my profile pic.
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