What everyday skill becomes too suspicious if you're too good at it? 

I dealt with the same problem with my fast reading. For example, we were assigned a book one day. I read it that evening. The whole book. The next day I asked for another book and the teacher insisted I needed to finish the assigned book first and refused to believe me when I said I finished it. Reading was a huge deal in my family and I read at a college level in middle school. My dad taught high school English.

My coworkers were speaking in another language and I had no idea what they were talking about. Suddenly one asked for a napkin, so I passed it over. The two stared at me with their mouths open. They asked me if I understood. "Yes" You speak German? What? No. I told them it probably sounds similar in English. They said it again. It did not sound anything similar. My only guess now is they made a gesture I understood 😂😂

Passing standardized tests. I had mediocre grades, but my scores in the tests were among the highest, and I was accused of cheating. They literally taught us how to logic through the questions and the people who created the tests. I didn't need the actual answer to find the answer.

My weird skill is just being _really quiet_ wherever I go, and it's not even on purpose. I could walk up to my old manager and scare her by accident because she didn't hear me coming at all. I think it came from being tormented in school, I just learned to not make noise so I drew less attention to myself.

I have an audio processing disorder, so I'm hard-of-hearing in loud environments, but can hear whispers across the room when it's quiet. People then accuse me of faking not being able to hear

The memorization thing is real. My entire family thinks I'm a liar because I can remember pretty much every conversation I've ever had with them word for word and they get uncomfortable when I quote verbatim something they said three years ago because it was relevant to the conversation.

I have a slightly scary degree of awareness of my personal space, because I spent my childhood dodging the subtle attacks of an abusive stepmother. At a party when I was 18, I was leaning against a table, in deep conversation with a friend, when someone I knew less well reached behind me to grab a bottle of alcohol. Without thinking or looking behind me, I reached back and grabbed his wrist. I think that freaked him out quite a bit, because instead of asking me to let go so he could get his drink, he said: "Wow, how does anyone get close to you?". My automatic response was, "They don't". I should have said, "They don't unless I want them to.", but I don't think my subconscious was really thinking about the harmless guy I had grabbed- I think I was in a permanent state of trying to defend myself against my stepmother, who wasn't even living in the same state. Edit: Just realised that I am also hyper-vigilant like the OP in story 24. Being abused really does mess people up.

I am uncannily good at remembering the last place I saw that thing you're looking for. phone, keys, razor, toys, a friend will say they're looking for it and I will just say "it's on that specific corner of that thing in that particular room" they'll walk in there going "but I looked in there..." then come out a few seconds later like "how the hell did you know that?!" and I shrug.

Quietly disappearing for me. I was known as the disappearing kid because I'm quiet (never have anything interesting to say) and I have ADHD. So when I'm with someone or a group, and see something interesting, I leave, and no one notices until a couple minutes later that I'm gone. Then they wonder where I am, turn around, and bam, I'm back, as if I was always there Last time that it happened was at my little brother's graduation party. I was sitting with my best friend (both our little brothers were graduating) and he turned around to talk with his girlfriend. I then saw someone I knew from when I went to that school, and went to say hello to them. After our convo, I walked back to my seat, where my friend turned around, saw me, and (not word for word) said "whoa! You always do this! I turn back and you're gone, and I turned back again, and here you are!" (It sounds way more harsh on text, since it's impossible to hear the voice intonation)

I know too much about concerning areas of chemistry. I got my master's degree making awful organophosphorus compounds, some of which could have been _easily_ converted into lethal nerve agents. Recently, I was explaining something to my boss--a chemical engineer/mathematician--and to illustrate, drew the structure of sarin (GB) on the whiteboard. He found my familiarity with chemical weapons "concerning."

I tested my reading level in third grade (it's mandatory in Las Vegas every year to test) and I scored a twelfth grade reading level. I checked out library books every day and would return them just as fast, but the librarian argued with me about taking out a twelfth grade book until she looked me up. Her face was priceless.

Story 14 reminds me of when I walked into 4th grade English the first day of school reading a copy of Dante's Inferno. I read a LOT as a kid (and still do), and had college level reading comprehension by the time I was 6. Teacher refused to believe I understood a word of what was written (Dante's Inferno is old enough that reading it makes reading Shakespeare seem easy), and kept questioning me on the actual contents of what I was reading until one of the other kids started crying and she realized exactly _what_ she was asking me in front of a bunch of other little kids (Dante's Inferno... does not cover family-friendly things).

I'm accidentally/just naturally sneaky. I can't even tell you how many times I've scared the crap out of friends and coworkers just walking up to them normal and saying something. Several people have even started requesting I be noisy just so they don't get years shaved off their lives whenever I'm suddenly next to them or in front of them. Several friends have actually become hyper aware as a consequence and now it's impossible for anyone to sneak up on them. Oh also I tend to wear steel toe work boots most of the time. I get accused of being purposely sneaky because I'm silent in those.

Mine is being able to see if a color is not right or if something needs to be adjusted by a few pixels on a digital product. ADHD is a hell of a chemical imbalance. I was working on a graphic design project for college, showed my dad who said it looked good, however I was able to point out a region on the design I made and said it needed to be raised by 5 pixels or so because it didn’t line up with the rest of the vehicle body lines, did so, and my dad was amazed how that tiny of a change did make a huge difference in the presentation of the vehicle in the ad I was making.

Bad habits that have nearly given my girlfriend, her father, and my coworkers heart attacks -appearing and disappearing at random -noticing things long before them -breaking down a person who would be a potential opponent in a fist fight, weakness and strengths -being able to spot plain clothes cops, and unmarked police vehicles -being able to tell if someones armed solely by watching them move or walk for a couple of seconds -improvised weaponry. The folding chair incident was glorious -instantly getting animals to calm down. A few pitbulls got aggressive towards my gfs dad and i got their attention and took them home -being able to avoid situations, or get people out of situations -first aid that i really shouldnt be doing in my own (stitches and stuff, things that should be done at a hospital) -crisis control. For any form of situation Ive been told id make a good emt and paramedic but my bedside manner is horrible

accurately using implied summersaults as a unit of measurement. I’m bad at eyeballing distances, but I could tell you how many summersaults I could do from wall to wall before I’m even on the ground. It’s surprisingly accurate

Not suspicious, but people definitely consider it weird, but just knowing things. I have autism, so research mode is like a hobby for me, I mainly research science-related stuff for hours, for fun. And often people will talk about things, not know something, but I know it. People unfortunately don't like it. As a little kid, I'd be ignored, because "kids can't possibly know anything". And even as an adult people still write me off, and assume I'm talking nonsense. Even had instances of people looking stuff up, and it'd be exactly what I said, and never get credit.

A theme park cleaning person here: i’d rather clean blood than ANY other body fluid! You develop a hard stomach to these sights but NOT the smell! I’ve also gotten good at picking out birthday buttons in a crowd! Different celebration buttons have different colors. Blue=birthday, purple= marriage/ anniversary, green= general celebration. Congratulating ppl on their birthdays from across the walkway by just seeing the button color can be a super power lol

My first impressions of people tend to be scarily accurate. When I say first impression, I mean their reactions, their body language, their facial reaction, or they open their mouth and say one thing, to either me or someone else, and I have a pretty solid impression of what they’re going to be and how they’ll perform in a given context. I used to think I was too quick to judge, but my accurate predictions of the boy in MS/HS every girl had a crush on whomst I mentally labeled “sleaze ball” the second I saw him (and he went on to break multiple people’s hearts and drag several into a myriad of bad decisions) and 3-5 coworkers I could tell on the first day/first intro line wouldn’t survive the job (and they didn’t, a couple of them were even fired which we rarely do) has kinda boosted my confidence. I still try to keep my eyes out for other info past the first impression, but my “vibe check” tends to be very strong.

Knowing too much about technology and/or science and/or psychology, especially if said knowledge allows you to deduce personal actions, facts, or habits from others indirectly, without any other readily obvious evidence implying said truths. For example, a coworker the other day came back from their lunch break. Later on, they made a one-off complaint to the effect of "ugh, I'm only JUST now getting this email? It's been like half an hour since my friend said she sent it!" I told her to avoid going to Stop and Shop for lunch if she wanted consistent phone service. But here's the thing: there was NOTHING to indicate that's what she had done. No food, no drink, no Stop and Shop bags. She didn't say where she went in prior conversation or literally anything else. The only reason I figured she had gone there, is because it's the closest "mass gathering" food-based location near our work, and those places tend to be massive faraday cages which will block and/or inhibit electronic reception of all kinds of things, including phones but also watches, cameras, and most forms of blue tooth. So if she had gone in there, it likely caused her phone to hit a "dead spot" and in an unfortunate coincidence, her phone's email app must have chosen some point while she was in there to "ping" her email for inbox updates. And she wasn't checking her phone during that time, which meant she didn't realize the connection was dropped. And so she missed the email because the phone didn't try to "ping" again until she checked her email app and forced it to refresh in the process. But being the socially inept weirdo that I am, I opted NOT to explain any of that preemptively, and just skipped straight to "don't eat at Stop and Shop and you won't lose cell phone service" as if that's a perfectly rational thing to say to someone who wasn't involving you in any of her decisions in any context up until that point. The silence was very awkward and the questions were pointed, but no, I wasn't stalking her and no, I didn't "know" she went to Stop and Shop for lunch. I just have very specific knowledge on certain coincidental things that led to understanding exactly what caused her specific problem, which I then conveyed in the most suspicious way possible. It's not MY fault I'm the only one who paid attention in science class and can intuit people will go to eat at places where they can easily acquire food.

I have a weird set of skills from growing up in a kinda abusive household. The most suspicious ones would probably be my uncanny ability to just move siliently and sometimes appear out of nowhere, my hyper vigilant hearing/accidental eavesdropping, high pain tolerance (i can be in agony from being sick or hurt and i wont say anything to avoid being annoying), and the ability to pick up on when someone is upset by their tone or expression. Honorable mention to stealing/hiding things (usually snacks), being able to lie pretty well by distorting the truth, and the uncanny reflex that kicks in to avoid being stabbed (it's only happened twice but still weird)

About the Excel one. One time at 4: 30 in the afternoon my boss came to me with a badly formatted Word document of categories and subcategories that needed to be entered into the database and referenced with each other. He offered me a $60 gift certificate to a pretty decent local restaurant if I stayed late to enter them all in, it would have taken a few hours probably. One thing I noticed was that the subcategories all had tabs in front of them to indent them. I copied the entire Word document into Excel and wrote a script to parse out all the text, assigning an ID number to the categories (which would be identified because they're in the first column) in the second and putting them all in one sheet, and referencing that ID number in the list of subcategories (second column) in another sheet. From there I just copied both sheets into two different tables in the database. The whole thing took about 20 minutes. I still got the gift certificate.

My Coworkers call me "The Psychopath" because i know "things". Basically I have a massive Interest in Chemistry, Biology and Physics and they don't understand that you can learn pretty crazy things in the old books for these three topics we have in my country. From making thermite and similar things like napalm to how much "pain" a human body can handle under the influence of adrenaline. Sometimes I use this knowledge to scare them for fun, it's always hilarious to see the look on their face after that and the slight panic in their voice telling me to "not do that please"

For me, it's reading comprehension and speed. It’s even worse bc I have a written expression disorder. Writing takes a millennium, I took forever to get somewhat okay at it, and it’s really easy for me to get off topic. But apparently, being asked a question and given three paragraphs to answer it makes me shine like a diamond. I took an exam in front of my English professor with no visible way to cheat. And she had to ask me into her office after grading it to ask me how I could get the highest grade on the exam, do so well in the classroom, and yet get subpar grades on and sound like a different person in my essays and papers. She said that if it were the other way around, she would have thought I had someone else write my papers! It was an emotional conversation. She was one of the few people who successfully helped me with some of my writing issues. And yes, this was in college.

The OP who was able to know who you were with, who was in a room before him, or the location of a human being they met five months ago must be the living embodiment of Tanjiro Kamado.

Back in my brief college years I was also part of the "rave" scene in my city and as such Tripp pants with extra chains was the street fashion. I would wear an extra 30-40 lbs of chain and learned how to step with such a level of finesse at normal walking speed that I barely made any noise at all. I made so little noise that I could hear people I passed by whisper about it. Turns out people get very *very* upset when you walk so softly that you can sneak up on them without even trying. I got yelled at so often that I had to reteach myself how to take heavy steps just so I would stop surprising people.

Not sure if it's at a level to call it uncanny or suspicious, but I can be really quiet when walking and can even move fast quietly, too. I think the main reason for this is that I've spent a large portion of my childhood/teenage years in a flat with really squeaky floorboards and they would just squeak like crazy if you walked normally. Sometimes I catch myself walking really quietly at the most random places and times, even outside, just out of habit. Another odd skill of mine is being able to memorize the most random stuff about anyone or anything (while, at the same time, having memory so bad that I often forget a topic mid-sentence), like the last place I've seen a given item or the exact context in which a person said something to me.

When I was younger, they even made me take typing classes, and I was absolutely terrible at it. It wasn’t until I played League of Legends, and had to type something quickly to my teammates that I also learned how to type quickly too 😂

I can understand human emotions like im reading a book just from looking at a person and having a single conversation with them. I can pull out what they think of me, what they think of someone else, how they are gonna behave if something happens, generally straight up pulling out their personalities in detail, works 90% of the time. One time my closest friend gotten a new friend at school and wanted me to meet him, we chatted for like 10 minutes and then my friend and i walked away, i straight up told him he should stay away from him he was just trying to use him for his class notes and hes just not a great person to be around because he would do anything to be better than anyone. He didnt believe me and when finals came that "friend" gave my friend wrong notes for the class just to make him not pass so he could be graded better than him and he would be the student of the year (by the time my best friend was it), but thankfully we realized the notes that he gave him was fake and i quickly gave him the real ones. the "friend" managed to pass the year but he couldnt get the student of the year. My friend never doubted me ever again.

as a 21 year old male, handling younger kids at the daycare (where i worked for an internship from school) is definitely on the list, kids always loved it when i came over after the internship, and i was always able to help them, silence them and practically could tell them to jump out a window (for example, obviously) and they would just listen and do it without hesitation their parents definitely had many talks with me about it being weird, to which i said "sorry, im just being myself" and shrugged also a bonus point: due to being autistic i tend to hyperfocus on something, so if a kid needed help i could just forget everything else and go help them, being a shy introvert also helped me remain calm regardless of circumstances (including an unannounced fire drill, during which i literally said "do not scream unless youre on fire, and get outside" and despite my colleagues struggling to also get the kids to not take stuff with them and go outside, as soon as i gave the order they all just went, it felt surreal to be honest outside i also asked "are any of you on fire? if so, come here so i can use the garden hose" (there was no actual fire, but stuff like that showed the kids i genuinely care for them which is probably why they enjoyed me as caretaker so much)

I deeply resonate with the strict father story, I also move very quietly, I was raised in an overall bad household. I got the habit of barely breathing, moving quietly, listening to footsteps, and stopping whatever I’m doing when someone walks in the room. It freaks out friends and sometimes my mom, mainly because she doesn’t know what caused those habits. And just like the other story I can tell people’s expressions and I know when to shut up. It sadly does affect my daily life but there’s nothing I can do about that 🤷‍♀️

Yeah, can relate to the memory one. I have an almost eidetic and echoic memory. I’ll remember vast parts of movies word for word having seen them once, every conversation word for word, and in some cases can literally re-read pages from a textbook in my mind. Usually it’s more the infographics and images that stick. Usually the stuff fades after a few weeks, it was super helpful in school, but also a liability. Had a lot of HS teachers and even some college profs mad that I wasn’t taking notes in class and thinking I wasn’t paying attention. At the time I thought everyone’s brain worked that way and didn’t understand why they thought that. For me, taking notes is more of a distraction, if I’m watching and listening carefully I can “play back” the teacher’s words and “re-read” the blackboard (yes I’m that old) from memory later. If I’m taking notes I’ll primarily be able to “re-read” my notes, but that’s not nearly as much information as I’d have from the teacher’s words and the blackboard. Has also been a liability at work because every darn person who thinks they can say one thing and then two days later say they said something slightly different that totally changes the meaning. Either I have to let them get away with it and feel like I’m being gas lit, or I say something, cause a scene, and get labeled a trouble maker. Neither is great so you’re always choosing the lesser of two evils. The skills are fading as I head toward middle age so we’ll see if my memory is any better than anyone else’s by the time I’m 80.

former GT kid here! it’s an elementary school program. once or twice a week, the GT specialist would pull you out of your classroom and bring you to a separate room where you’d do puzzles, logic assignments, or other projects. it was fun and stimulating, and a total reprieve from boring, repetitive schoolwork! not sure what my classmates thought about it, but i think they may have been jealous that we got to “skip” class haha

One thing that comes to mind for me is that my sense of touch is really strong. I have frequent migraine issues and had to learn a lot about massage to fix muscle knots and tension that would trigger them for me. I'm now able to find knots and know what I need to do to fix them in seconds, and I know that a difference of 2mm can make pressure on a knot ineffective. I don't show this off very often, though, because I get weird looks when a friend is complaining about pain in their arm or something and I can find and fix the problem in under 10 seconds. Right now my sense of touch is good enough that I can feel blood moving through people's veins (not just their pulse) using my fingers and can tell when someone is about to have a tension headache or some kinds of migaines by feeling their temples.

Nobody can hear my footsteps and I’ve been known to disappear in a crowded room and appear in another unnoticed. The trick to sneaking around is moving when backs are turned. Ex: A single second of distraction to make my mom turn my back to me, can get me to my bedroom 20 feet away On few occasions, my mom has told me that I’m like a ninja.

I totally relate to the reading gimmick. When I was young,I could read a good 150 pages in an hour. My friends,when they first saw it, quizzed me on random details of the book that I apparently 'faked'. Yeah,I aced it. Guess who was the cool kid for the rest of the year.

I'm decent with lockpicking and everyone always thinks I'm some kind of a criminal.. I don't know if that's considered an "everyday" skill though. And maybe some of these are more like "suspiciously handy"?. Damn, and story 9 sounds like it could have been me. I was just thinking a couple of days ago how I watch things with my peripheral vision sometimes - and I'm decent at reading things upside down (trained that skill by watching youtube through a mirror that I was "using" on my desk...lol)

I can tell someone's voice and their state of mind just by their texting, i've noticed when someone was high, i guessed 5 people's voice, and i can tell the difference between old and new texts by how they "sound"

as a tech savvy eagle scout, who still thrives on learning new things, with a strong sense of hearing, smell, and sensitivity to vibration.... between the blood/gore thing, being able to pick locks, the stealth factor, knowing when someone I am familiar with just entered the building, foretelling weather and machinery breaking or failing... it freaks people out... I need to be careful about what I say/do at work because they think I can just bring things into existing just by talking or doing something small (like counting down on my hand hitting zero right as a machine starts going off. now I cannot read people or pick up "blunt" hints.... I need to be told things directly and names are my bane

Seeing chemistry between people has always been something for me. I just look at people and I can tell whether its totally platonic, one sided or they like each other. I am friends with these people O and L and a while back I went to one of their parties and I was speaking to their mum and told her that O and L were going to get together. Nobody believed me until 3 months later when they finally admitted to themselves that they liked each other. I also have hyperfast reflexes and block most things from getting near me even if it's something like a hug. I bat it away if I see it for even a millisecond in the corner of my eye. Or even if I cant see it and I can sense it happening Update: A big event of the first thing happened again and it was with the same person with the same person's mum but even better, I told L's mum that L and B were going to get together and not only did they get together they got together under an hour after I spoke to her mum about it.

I always take note of which doors to a building are never locked or simply can’t be locked. I also leave places with out a trace. This skill comes in handy because my friends like to use my house as a post office and I’m often tasked with dropping off the packages either in their barn or their workshop depending on who needs the delivery. I call this a reverse robbery.

You know what's actually suspicious when you're unbothered by blood, gore, and guts? Not being a medical professional in any way, shape, or form. That's me. I openly discuss gore, blood, etc. and watch various surgery videos for fun, with or without food. I am completely desensitized and almost always have been, but I have no real reason to be. (Also, same on the strep test, haha. It also made me learn how to open the back of my throat and flatten my tongue down without needing to say "ah" during an oral exam at wellness visits.)

The second one happens to me a lot, I remember specific details about people and conversations they themselves usually forget. It can be frustrating when you know something happened but they deny it and get angry because they don’t remember

I can relate to the reading upside down story, as well as reading really quickly. It always freaks people out when i can read the paper in front of them faster than they can looking at it normally

"Please get off my lawn or become a part of it". I would buy that sign/lawn ornement.

The story just before 9:58, Man has to be Tanjiro Kamado. ain't no way.

Erasing Presence. Im not if its a skill though because sometimes people just...forget i exist or dont see/hear me when im close to them. Its a problem. I unintentionally sneak up on people, constantly, like scare the ever living hell out of them. Ive had my friends completely do a 180, looking for me, only to find im right next to them and have been for awhile. Im also reslly good at what i call "Poofing". The second i get into a mall or store i can disappear in a heartbeat, then reappear and the person wont even realize i was gone. It got so bad in highschool that my friends put a bell on me and at first it was a joke, after realizing just often the bell spooked them, they made me take it off and decided to remain blissfully ignorant of my existence lol

I can tell that it's going to rain shortly due to the temperature drop and the wind picking up slightly, sometimes my ears pop if it's going to be heavy rain... Sometimes people are just sensitive to changes in the atmosphere

14:17 You think they’re joking, but dead bodies are incredible for fertilization. They do wonders for flowerbeds

Kind of a similar hype-aware situation, I can catch one or two words out of what someone who I know well said and know what they were talking about based on their tone with about an 80% accuracy. The thing that's suspicious about it is that I have hearing issues where when noises overlap it all garbles together so whenever I randomly chime into one of my parent's conversations while doing dishes because I caught one word out of 20 they always hit me with "I thought you couldn't hear?" Also, I swear to god my subconscious is like a whole other person who's way better at everything than me. Whether it's writing, painting, w/e if I go on auto-pilot while doing it my brain will automatically plug in bits I need. Like I'll think I wrote myself into a corner and then find a section of my notes that seemed to have accounted for me getting into this situation with no memory of writing those notes. And when painting I'll add details that relate back to lore that I had completely forgotten about when I started and have no idea why I did that until I look back at the lore later.

Working as a server, I became very good at noticing non verbal tells of people and anticipation of needs coupled with knowledge of body language. If l am introduced to someone, I can quickly scan everything about a person and gauge certain things about them. I also know how to speed read..nuff said. I am far sighted so when riding shotgun, I can see the street my girlfriend is looking for before she can. She relies on since she is near sighted. I am also good at remembering landmarks throughout the city...like a unofficial gps. I am also good at stealth and disappearing... remembering landmarks and back ways from walking everywhere before I got a car. That also comes from having a helicopter mom and figuring out ways to stay out of her way.

erasing my own presence is the funniest thing ive ever learned plus having near soundless footsteps on tiles makes me a pain in the ass

I have inherited some of my fathers spatial awareness and am otherwise pretty inconspicuous. In the past I confused people a few times during walks by falling back and changing position without them noticing at first. I would also say I am pretty good at moving through crowds without a lot of bumping or shoving others.

Bro is really complaining about the quality of the Reddit posts he’s picking out to put on his RU-vid channel

9:45 Tanjiro is that you?

As someone who grew up in a strict household, I also learned "how to avoid trouble" instead of "how to do ______ the right way". But yeesh, 12:58 still hit me hard. I have internalized feeling guilty about more than I should.

i have a weird skill of hiding under blankets completely undetected. it's great for hide & seek

I can relate to the hypersensitive sense of smell story from around 9:50; there was a time I could tell what the hogs in a confine had for lunch based on the smell of the nearby manure lagoon. Rather, I could tell what nutrients their food was spiked with. I can still track a skunk on a moonless night with my nose, and I was able to tell that one of my co-workers at my previous job had been in a specific gas station bathroom due to the smell of a particular soap on his hands.

Knowing how other drivers on the road think and knowing what they’re about to do, even subtle things like a small disruption in the line a driver takes and be an early sign that they’re going to turn, I learned this skill from racing bumper to bumper, knowing how to defend and attack in a race is extremely vital, ask any professional driver and they will probably tell you the same thing. Edit: also worth noting that a good amount of professional drivers and racers don’t like driving on the street, burnouts and burn out are two things that do very much happen with drivers

7:17 this parkour made me have physical pain

5:12 That last sentence made that story so much funnier XD

I'm unusually good at reading people, more so in person because I can analyze their behaviors a lot easier. If I don't have much to go off of, then it definitely gets harder. From this, I usually find stuff out about people without them telling me directly, but often choose to keep it to myself due to the seriousness of it. This probably came about because I am accustomed to hiding a lot of things about myself due to extreme psychological abuse from my parents. Since I keep a lot of secrets I can easily tell when someone else is also hiding something.

I hate how some people will view you as a creep for having a way better memory than them

Story 17 would be such a helpful skill. As someone who cant smell unless its fumes or ridiculously strong i would love to be able to smell well again, especially that well

i have something to add, the ability to find something to fidget with i have ADHD so i often struggle with focusing on something and will usually bring something to help but something i can't bring something and will have to make due with whats available i have played entire chess games with myself and a single piece of paper i have found old buttons and flipped them like coins i have even gone as far as grabbing an empty soda can, removing the little tab thingy on top, putting that little tab inside the can, and shaking it

idk if you'd call it suspicious, per se, but I'm very good at picking up on small details. Things like little background details in movies or tv-shows, spelling mistakes in books, etc. I've surprised my parents multiple times just by remembering a very minute detail about something that they had already forgotten

I can turn off my emotions in an instant, like, manually choose to not be angry/sad/happy/embarassed/whatever, kind of like if youre tensing a muscle and then just, not tensing it. If you want to do this, what you can do is first learn to turn off your anger, how i did this is mainly by just seeing that there is literally never a reason to be angry, so just, don't be, then i replicated how the "turning off" feeling felt like, but with other emotions

9:30 we found tanjiro

A weird one for me is physically deciding not to be affected by things that happen to my body. Like once, when I was younger, I swear I broke my toe, but just "decided" it wasnt broken, and lo and behold the doctor says im fine. Another time, i was playing footall, and got knocked out, butdecided that I shouldnt be knocked out then stood up fine. More rent examples include javing a literal heart attack and telling myself "Im fine" and then I was, or getting intoa serious car crash and saying out loud "Ill walkout jist fine" and then I do, despiteme laying on my roof.

I have auditory memory, and can tell what you said two weeks before, word to word. And sometimes, I can tell what people should do in a tangled situation, like solving something, pointing out a price that is way more cheaper and still more better deal, finding the problematic part of an object and fix it up (my mom once accidentally broke off a side mirror from her car, and I taped it back till we needed it, held up for months and recently was duct taped again, I'm talking about that it still worked, even after weeks of rain in August, 2023 here, and really only broke off in late November). Yeah, this is the good in ASD, that you see the world from a different angle.

I have a high chance of knowing if someone is being deceitful towards me, like: lying, saying stuff about me, or acting in a way that hurts me or my things. I've had it since I was young, but I really developed it because I got bullied throughout elementary and part of middle school. It got to the point that once in middle school, I had a feeling that the 2 boys coming up the stairs had scattered my stuff across the ground. Lo and behold, once I got back to my stuff, it was indeed scattered across the ground. On an unrelated note, I also tend to sneak up behind people without them hearing me. Oddly enough, I have a higher chance of doing so if I'm not even trying to.

6:27 I had a teacher like that back in high school, I wouldn’t even have to point, he’d know exactly what the student needed permission for.

Story 14: I had and still have the same talent, having once read through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows shortly after it released in a single 14 hour sitting. Unfortunately for me, my school had a "Reading Lexile" system where students could only borrow books within +/- 150 points of their score and you could never test lower. There was only one book I was allowed to borrpw from the library my entire time with that school: The Scarlet Letter (Lexile rank 1320, exactly 150 below mine). Also screwed myself up when younger to where I got so good at math that, when in High School learning Algebra, I could sove some differential equations and other math problems within seconds of the teacher writing it on the board, think that moment in Static Shock when Ritchie looks up from his sketchbook at the massive problem on the board and answers "4 over pi", but with something like (x^2)-2 as the answer instead. Ended up being to my detriment because the state required you to show your work on major tests, but I'd memorized the core formulas so thoroughly back then that slowing my brain down enough to show the thought process was a bigger challenge. Fortunately(?) lost some of that due to time away from math courses in general, but I can still do some of those kinds of equations faster without a calculator than with one.

I also seem to be above average in reading comprehension. At my school they made us do a test that would tell us our "reading level", so if you were a 4th grader, your results should say about a 4th grade reading level. When I was in 4th grade, the test said I was at the same level as college students. I also learned to read quite a bit earlier than most children.

On the subject of inflexible teachers. I am an American, and, as a ten year old, I studied for a year at a British school when my family was living in Germany. The English teacher there was quite biased against Americans, especially with regard to our mastery of the English language, or lack thereof. A month after I started, she gave my class a creative writing assignment. I was happy about the assignment, because I love writing stories. The first one I wrote was in second grade, and I have written consistently since then. So I worked hard on my story. I handed it in with pride. Two days later, my teacher formally accused me of plagiarism, on the grounds that my vocabulary usage and sentence structure was far more advanced than it should have been at my age. I cried, and told her I had written the story myself. Later that day, she administered a surprise vocabulary test to our class. I was the only one who had a perfect score. They were all words from my story. To her credit, she formally apologized and then established a creative writing class to give me more opportunities to write. When I finally left the school, she told me she was looking forward to reading my novel some day. So she was biased, but she was willing to change. It would have been best if she had trusted me. Failing that, she admitted she was wrong and tried to make amends. I bet she was more open minded after that.

For me it's reading fast, spotting links between different languages and generally being too good at languages, memorizing stuff easily, and getting good grades on tests all the time without doing any revision.

I could partially recognize myself in many of the stories. Even when I was younger, I had abilities such as an almost-id memory with which I could simply imagine the page of the book when I was learning vocabulary with my mother and therefore knew exactly what the English word was opposite the German word. In addition, as a child, I was interested in scientific phenomena from an early age and when I was bored in class or didn't have much to do at work, I always liked to make calculations and sketches showing the solar system, the distance of the planets and the speed of light and my classmates and friends said they felt like they were sitting next to Albert Einstein. However, I would never say that I'm really as smart as him, I'm at most on a similar level in some small island talents. A small side thing that is actually rather commonplace, similar to the stories, is this peripheral field of vision, being able to identify and analyze things. I never had a strict past, but I still have this ability and have already used it to my advantage in my work.

saying "oh i'm a vet" is way more reassuring than "it's not mine" to the blood thing.

Being so quiet to the point that i unintentionally scare others

Ive always been interested in medieval melee weapons ever since i was young, always watched youtube videos of people who knew what they were talking about talk about the differences and nuances of different types of sword blades and axe heads and maces in the context of medieval soldiers/mercenaries using them to try and k!ll eachother with them, watched channels like skallagrim and lindybeige and zombie go boom. I just loved thinking about warriors using swords and shileds or halberds to defend their homes from invaders in brutal fashion, sounds kinda bad but i asure you im not a psycho serial killer, was just a kid who liked to get lost in brutal fantasies of bloodshed and war lol. Well one day a lot of my family was around at my house in england(a place were being into bladed weapons was seen as kinda criminal and stange by most people) and my dad was chopping some wood for a big metal fire stove thing for everyone in our backgarden and he was showing my little cousins how to chop wood properly with the right technique. All the other kids including my larger older cousin gave it a go and most failed miserably even when my dads arms were guiding them to make sure they didnt miss the chopping block and chop a toe or two off. Well i was about 14-15 at the time and only a little bigger then the average 14-15 year old but when it was my turn my dad already knew i was kinda competent at using an axe but the rest of my family didnt believe him when he told them i was better at using an axe then most fully grown men (most men in England dont chop wood very often and my dad was kinda old school and liked to 'show me off' whenever anything remotely masculine was being done) and so i started chopping wood and was splitting most of the pieces of logs with ease dispite the axe not being properly sharpened, eveyone was kinda taken back at how well i was throwing that axe head up and then crashing it down through the wood pieces coz i was using good technique and the axe was going staight through most pieces like butter. Most people there would compliment my ability to chop wood while some(mostly the women there no offense) would go quiet and had an uncomfortable 'aura' to them like they found it strange i was so good at it in a way especially after i started to explain(with excitement and a smile on my face) just how easy it is for anyone to chop up things using an axe as you dont have to be big and stong to use the weight and power of an axe head to sink the axe through objects and i then started to chop up harder objects to prove my point like wood with big knots using not too many hits on the knots to chop through them and scrap metal and i would be stringing up some peices of wood and metal to hang against the concrete pillar of my backgarden fence at about head level so i could swing the axe at head level like an actual viking would swing an axe in war against an opponent, at that point people were becoming flabbergasted at how well i was able to destroy anything in front of the axe when i was swinging it overhead like i was tryna k!ll someone. This lead my to start to explain how medieval warriors would have done it and how they would have done stuff like this to practice their swinging techiques for actual war and i started to talk about just how into medieval melee combat i was and how much i knew about various weapons when talking to some of my older family and younger cousins. Most people there didnt know just how into all these things i was, couple that with the fact i was a kinda quite shy person at the time who was now lighting up and having long conversations about these things with a smile on my face when talking about how badly a proper tapered sharp battle head could destroy a human skull and its safe to say i definitely looked suspicious and kinda stange to my family especially some of my more pacifist anxious aunties and femal cousins that never think about these types of things nor do they want to, like i could start to see the 'uncomfortable-ness' on their faces grow more and more the more i opened up and talked about these things. My mum knew i wasnt a wierd psycho and so did my dad but some of my family members looked like they thought i was and looked they wanted me to stop talking about these things to their kids😂 i was about to show some of my cousins some zombie go boom videos of the things i was talkibg about and thats when my dad told me to stop and redirected the conversation onto the barbecue and the fire that most people were sat around. I still remeber this day pretty vividly because i could feel how uncomfortable i was making some of the women which was never my intention, i definitely learned how to filter and control myself better after that day when it comes to talking about these things around people who dont give any thought to weapons and dont enjoy conversations about medieval soldier trying to k!ll eachother😂 had to reasure one of my aunties who i was close to but didnt know these things about me that it was only an interest to me just like how i was madly interested in dinosaurs or video games lol. Shoutout to anyone who grew up watching zombie go boom or tods workshop or skallagrim or any of the other good bigger channls that talk about and test these types of weapons because I've seen ALL the big youtube channels that share these same interests and dont regret for one second being so into this type of stuff coz now being 21 years old with a nice balnce of speed and strength if anyone ever tried invading my home and came up stair lets just say its legal to k!ll someone in England if they break into your house and how walked up stairs to the second floor of your house and i would definitely 'axe' them some questions if they ever came to the second floor of my house🪓😉😂

story 17... the super smell one. identifying if it will rain or snow comes natral to some people the density in the air, moisture levels, and how clean the air are change when it rains or snows. so some pick up on that easly. i could tell if it would rain 48 hours before it did when i was growing up. also had super hearing due to an eardrum injury healing far better than it should have. i could hear a dog whistle, and moving your foot a half inch while playing hide and seek would alert me from over 80 feet away to your exact position. i had echolocation in that ear. made tube TVs a pain as i could hear a low hum from them even when turned off. also have some alarming healing speed... got a knife thrue my hand (cooking mistake) and it cut the nerve and tendon in my middle finger. it healed up on its own, reatached the tendon and everything within a week. bairly has a scar these days

Combine being "quietly observant" (yeah, I know if you’re having a bad day), a good listener who people easily open up to (and I even know why), with having such a strong feeling of tact, to the point it replaces my conscience (and I know how to lift your spirits, buddy), and you basically get my situation. Funnily enough, these skills didn’t make me seem suspicious to anyone, but another one did. Being calm. Yeah, turns out is freaks people out if you stay calm in the most dire situations, or while being insulted right in the face. Also never raising voice and being polite to everyone. You can’t imagine how often people ask if I’m taking something, which I don’t. I just consider resorting to barbaric yelling as being beneath myself. Also, years of suppressing inner rage and other emotions make you calm as a rock in any scenario.

Story 18- There are some cultures where you automatically have to know which way is north because their languages don't have relative direction ("left" or "right"), only absolute direction (north, south, east and west). I read once about a university that took a lot of transfer students from a particular African country (don't remember which) who didn't readily use relative direction in English. They had to paint the north walls of all the classrooms orange for the benefit of the NON-transfer students.

9:18 TANJIRO?

Not really suspicious, just cool. I can predict what the next note is in a song I've never heard. Normally I'll hear a note, think "its going to be A, but if It isn't it'll be B." And 9/10 times I'm right. I also have lighting fast reflexes. Something will start to drop and bam! Caught it before I realize whats going on. I've even gotten some compliments for it. Really handy!

I like when the Minecraft obstacle course videos show the person failing and retrying, it’s more interesting that way

When I was younger I used to able to smell the rain before it happened, but I've never lived anywhere with enough show to test that.

Not necessarily suspicious but definitely has given me some interesting moments. Handling a machete and knife throwing. Mom was raised in a ranch +I'm a quick learner = some very impressive machete/bushcraft skills. About the knife throwing. At some day I just realized I could. It's not too impressive but it's more than the average person since I self learned it. It also works for the ladies since ranch work makes you ripped 😅

The moving through a hoarder mess one, I honestly have been developing that a little bit... I HATE open spaces, and honestly, I hope in the future to get a bunch of empty boxes and just litter them around my room so I have less open space ^^

i have minor versions of a lot of these things. if i had to choose, i can move through crowded places really fast. once at a friends birthday, i was up a flight of stairs(about 15 meters above the ground), called out to my friend, then spent 30 seconds going down the stairs and through 30 meters of a crowd to get to them. another friend asked if i could teleport. I would like to add these are probably inaccurate values.

Rope tying. Basic training in the Navy included learning to moor ships. We learned the knots, protocols etc. I had fun with it. I went on to learn more knots and stuff, and now I have a knot for just about anything. I have been accused (jokingly) of being a kidnapper/serial killer, and a mountain man. I won't deny the mountain man accusation, because woodland survival is a personal hobby. But, I have yet to hit my serial killer arc, and haven't started any plans therein.

My family can tell if a person is bad or not through the "feeling" they can sense it or something. I can't, but I am autistic.

Despite being widely known in my communities to be "that one guy who is good at everything" the only thing that raise suspicion is my surving skill (or talent) to deal with any kind of dangerous or threatening situation, as if they're normal. I could run very low on income, way below the national standard, and still cook some great meals for multiple peoples, at unbelivably low price, to the point that most people wouldn't believe I'm doing them right. Additionally, this spawned the joke that I'm secretly immortal, because I could survive anything. Extreme weathers? Traffic accident? Serious sickness? Eating food that shouldn't be safe to consume? I could even eat as much as I please, never gain weight, height, and barely ever grows old. My only weakness is sleepiness, because I would get easily sick if I sleep even slightly less than what I should have.

For me it's suddenly appearing behind people I sometimes do this on purpose, but most times I just walk behind them and when they turn around to look I'd suddenly be there and get shocked. This is how I met one of my friends.

11:43 honestly, the breathing thing has caused me to learn how to breathe extremely quietly, you just gotta breathe INCREDIBLY slowly. Also, it is smart to learn how to hold your breath while making it not look like you are, as it helps reinforce that skill.

I relate to the people with incredibly good memories. It also goes both ways for me. If I feel like I need to remember something, I can hold it in my head for as long as necessary. But if somebody says something is confidential between us, I will pay attention to the conversation, hold it in my head, then forget the details of the conversation afterward. If somebody else asks about the information I was given in confidence, I can honestly say I don’t remember what they’re talking about. But if another person asks about something I’ve been holding in my mind for some time, I can immediately pull it up and give the best answer I can based on my memory

Somehow I remember the interior of homes & feel weird when furnitures are moved. Learnt not to comment about it tho, because it makes the host uncomfortabe/concerned. 14:31

Being good with knives. Everyone uses them, to cook, prep, slice dice, you name it. There’s a knife in every household. So anytime I throw a knife or flip one in my hand to change grip for my next throw people are instantly wide eyed. It’s one of the best party tricks, gets everyone outside to get up and try. I love it.

I read at college level at 6 years old. Mother was a teacher, taught special education, both above and below grade. I read three 300 page books a day from elementary school through high school. I would go into a “reading trance” and finish a book in 20 minutes. I enjoy reading books and still pull up random facts from things I read in elementary school.

I'm really good at noticing someone staring at me, not just peripheral vision. To the point where people would constantly ask me if I have an extra eye on the back of my head. Whenever my friends try to sneakily take a photo of my back, I just turn around and stare at them before they can press the button. Every time. Oh, and I can also find all the hidden cameras. Try taking a photo of me without me knowing, it's a challenge.