I mean as a little kid it was reading minds but that’s just because I was evil
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that being said at least 60% of the fun of superpower media is that people don’t get to choose their superpowers and have to play the hand they’re dealt
just like irl except instead of debilitating genetic conditions you can shoot fire out of your hands
It’s funny because the list of things people give as “superpowers” is like. Really disparate in their actual, practical ability? And people will still say the dogshit ones?
What are you going to do with shooting lasers out of your eyes compared to being able to teleport. Like do you know what you can do if you can teleport. It’s insane. Why would you want lasers
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Anyway on the other subject IDK what your personal experience with Living in the Woods Unable to Drive is, but it was genuinely driving me insane as a kid. There’s so much independence usually afforded to human beings that you simply do not get to have, and it is so, so reliant on the goodness of the people you’re living with in a way that’s deeply uncomfortable even if they do happen to be good.
I’m very lucky that my mother only mildly disapproved of certain vaccines and dental procedures! If her disapproval was any stronger, I could not get them. I’m lucky that she was only mildly insane about food, and didn’t force us to go on the diets she was putting herself on, because otherwise, I could not get proper nutrition. I’m very lucky that she was only mildly homophobic and mildly paranoid about crime and mildly disapproving of my friends’ parents and all those other flaws that could’ve completely fucked me over if she was a bit more controlling
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And obviously parents can be controlling if you live in a city and/or can drive, but they can only punish you in retaliation for what you do, and only if they find out. They can’t tell if you stop by a store on the way back from school and buy a food with seed oils in it, they won’t be present at the doctor’s office after you’re over 18 and so you can get a vaccine without them knowing, and so on and so forth.
And it was just kinda terrifying living in a place where I knew I had to stay on people’s good sides or I would not be able to leave the house, not by punishment or anything like that, but simply by them not acting generously enough to drive me everywhere.
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Plus IDK even without the parents issues it sucks to be a burden on people all the time and constantly ask them to drive you around. It’s annoying!
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i feel like inventing a teleporter would kill multiple birds with one stone here
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For my lack of severe infection as a kid I can thank only my dad’s refusal to drink raw milk
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I think it’d actually save a lot of birds ‘cause of the lack of cars thing
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Yeah
i was at the batting cages the other day cause i was Bored and i swear the ball went way past the line several times to the point it would’ve hit me if i was standing closer (which, if i was a child (which those machines were designed for), i would’ve been hit right in the head
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also my thighs are killing me but thats not really because of that but something else
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look i’m not the best and i think it mightve made it worse because they went super low
so are my knees
and my left arm. the arm is because of that
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you know in baseball there’s this thing called the strike zone that tends to be above your knees and if the pitches aren’t in there you’re not actually expected to be able to hit them
the machines weren’t labeled
i just determined that one was meant for children after i played on it and it went lower than the other one
anyway “atlas goes to the batting cages” would not have been on any 2026 bingo card i could possibly have created
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yeah the idea that i’m a real person shocks most and then you have to determine that i go outside and then you have to say that i’m able to go into buildings (physically, legally, and morally) and then you have to say said building was batting cages? that’s just too many steps.
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I had a scooter (still have but someone stole it and kinda fucked it up so I havent used it much since i got it back) and I fell off it a good few times. I’m pretty clumsy but also dont have any actual disability that would disadvantage me
It was fun but ultimately kinda dangerous, definitely annoying to the people around me, and led to me getting kinda out of shape since i didnt have to walk anywhere
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