What's the closest thing you have to a superpower?

I'm good at knowing people I guess. I'm usually pretty good and getting to understand what kind of person someone is and what they're capable of within a few minutes of meeting them.
I enjoy it when someone surprises me, which is very rarely, and I can't think of any time I've been very wrong except back with my high school crush.

I'm pretty good at telling what sort of emotions people are trying to hide too. I have trouble relating to the whole "women always say nothings wrong" cliche because I usually have a pretty good idea exactly when something went wrong.

Sometimes I think "Oh tlh053, you're just being a judgmental asshole", but then I get to know people a little more and they always end up being exactly who I thought they would be.
I still try to ignore it until I have good reason not to, but I think that's mostly because I doubt myself a lot.


!! I think my favorite example was I'm my first CS class in college. The professor comes in and introduces himself and after hearing him talk for a minute or two I have him pegged as an extremely self-absorbed person. He had barely said anything about himself yet, so I thought that maybe I was misjudging him and tried to keep an open mind.
He starts giving his syllabus day powerpoint lecture, titled "Lecture 0", and one part of it is a bunch of motivational quotes from people like Ghandi, MLK, Einstein, Buddha, Churchill, etc.
I immediately said to my roommate, "Alright, if he has his head as far up his ass as I think he does, he's going to close this whole thing out with a quote from himself."

Sure enough, the last slide has some idiotic quote from him and half my table struggles to hold in their giggles.

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