• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    My boyfriend can smell when someone drank alcohol hours (or even days!) later. He seems to smell it in a person’s sweat, so we suspect he senses some kind of metabolite.

    As to me? In-person I seem to emit a comforting, trustworthy aura. Children and stray animals approach me like they just know that I’m a safe space for them. As a result, I’ve acquired quite a list of no-kill shelters in my phone. I also ended up working in children’s therapy.

    Adults who share my wavelength can also recognize it in me, and I can recognize it in them - we’re drawn to each other in the same “inherently trustworthy” way. I suspect it’s an aspect of neuro-divergence.

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        7 days ago

        Well yeah, they’re saying it’s their super power, not their minor power.

        Or are you saying attracting minors doesn’t count toward Disney Princess credentials?

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        6 days ago

        Especially if they use it for evil. This could be a fork in the road for their origin story! Controlling animals to do their bidding.

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      6 days ago

      I also have that aura, and I am here to lend credence to being able to see it in others, and them seeing it in me.

      I have this cute phrase for when it’s not just that aura but also the obvious background of trauma, “We have so much in common! I’m so sorry.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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      I’m similar. Ever since I was a kid, my mom would notice that “babies love me.” They really do. If there’s a baby nearby, it’ll probably love me and I’ll probably be making faces at it, etc. I think it’s partially the beard, but it was true pre-beard, too.

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      I know people like that. They have some sort of social worker aura. People just come to them, they are not close with them but tell them the craziest things that happened in there like, usually for advice but sometimes just to have a confident.