What's your superpower?
 

Totally stealing from Tina Swithin...but loved it too much not share:

"I survived divorcing a sociopath, years battling to protect my children, stalking, harassment, threats, gaslighting and rumors. What's your superpower?!".

Yes!!

My superpower is moving out at record speed and dismantling furniture. I can also foretell future without the crystal ball.

^ love it :)

My superpower is the ability to change a door lock and deadbolt in 4 minutes flat, and disable an automobile in the time it takes an intoxicated person to stagger towards the drivers seat and find the key.

I can lie o n my couch and watch my "Buns of Steel" video for up to two hours at a time, without stopping!!!

dandylion

That is awesome, dandy!! :)

I could tell if AH was drinking from only one text, one millisecond on the telephone, or a glance from yards away...

^^^^^^^Absolutley!!!!!!!!!!!!

dandylion

KBoys-a million times YES.............yes!!!!

I can tell the difference between a BEER can opening and a SODA can opening from four rooms away.

I can hear and/or see almost anything happening in the same room I am in & show absolutely zero reaction. Total poker face. Yep, this book/show/magazine/ is just sooooooooo engrossing that I didn't even notice the quacking going on around me. Not. :lmao

I can tell, the instant I meet them, if a woman is an addict, alcoholic, codependent, or mentally ill. The secret is, if I'm attracted to her, she's ****** up. It doesn't have a damned thing to do with her appearance.

Cyranoak

Yep, I can recognize an alcoholic without ever seeing them drink. I can also completely misplace my reading glasses without even getting up from the sofa.

^ me too! I see flashing neon lights now...and I run far away!

My sponsor's wife, who has 40+ years clean and sober in AA, is very active in that program. She always has a half dozen women she is sponsoring. Every so often some sponsee's would move out of town, or go back out, and she would find herself with not enough to do with her free time. She would then go on "sponsee hunt" looking for women to add to her "clutch".

I would get "borrowed" to go with her to a meeting of AA, she would stand me in a corner and then ask me to tell her which of the women in the meeting I felt attracted to. She would then say "Oh good, those have to be the sickest ones in the room" and she would go offer to sponsor them.

< heavy sigh >

It's not a super power, it's more like a super radar for dysfunction. The good news is that now I _avoid_ the "pings" on my radar instead of seeking them out.

Mike :)

Mike, that is my new favorite recovery-related story. I am absolutely dying over here! Talk about making the most of your "gifts," in whatever form they take! :lmao

Lol, mike. That must be my superpower as well. Thankfully I run the opposite direction now and ignore :)

My superpower would be to "never let them see me sweat". I can wear a face with zero indication of what I am thinking. This comes from my career which includes being very close in someone's personal space, often when they are in states of undress. People have tendencies to be very relaxed and talk about things that they wouldn't otherwise whether it be to me, or other people in the room. Can't so much as raise an eyebrow. Often times it becomes necessary to pretend I didn't hear what they said, or that I didn't see something that I did.

It served me well when RAH relapsed. Inside I was a disaster, but he never saw it. Therefore, he became sloppy (he wasn't initially) when he was trying to hide it, and had no idea I was moving toward severing the relationship, as well as moving things around financially.

many of you may have heard the AA's old joke - "I'm allergic to alcohol - it makes me break out in handcuffs"
well - it's not a superpower but i'm allergic to alcoholics - I break out in a super hero cape & attempt to rescue their world
:lmao
Well - I use to ~ Today, my Superpower is being my pinkful self and giving others the respect & dignity the do the same.

^ ha!! Oh my that was me too-rescue, save. Ick! No more :)