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Well, not really superpowers since they are common in humans. However, they are pretty interesting abilities nonetheless.
Advanced speech recognition. I can filter out speech of one person while ignoring other background noise and even other speech.
Advanced face recognition. I can see faces in clouds, floors, and other inanimate objects. Also helps when looking at real faces of people in a crowd. See also: pareidolia
Auditory hallucinations during hypnagogia. Look it up. It’s weird and trippy.
Desensitization and habituation to capsaicin. I can eat spicy foods.
I have the opposites of all of these.
I can’t differentiate noises, I’m awful at picking out speech in loud places, I’m bad with faces, and spicy foods upset my stomach (I can eat them, but it has consequences).
My evil twin from the mirror dimension. We meet at last! Or maybe I’m the evil one?
Same. It sucks. My brothers have continually given me shit for decades for being a bitch that doesn't like spicy wings. I'm like "dudes, it's not that I don't enjoy the taste, it's that my stomach will literally cramp up 4 hours from now and I'll be shitting pain."
They don't care.
You are not alone.
lol well done. the clinical language makes these very mundane skills seem mystical. Hypnagogic AH!