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I just want the ability to close my ears the same as I close my eyes, thanks.

NONE! I ALREADY HAVE TOO MANY! I got high detail vision, taste and smell and a bit super hearing. My partner has among other things such a good hearing they hear electricity in the walls. Life for them is a nightmare!

Being autistic isnt fun :(

already have everything but super vision, so I'll take that.

Super enhanced proprioception.

General execution and even general learning of anything that requires physical movement (from sports, driving, writing/typing, doing surgery, videogames...) would be massively improved.

There are aids to enhance things like vision and hearing, but there are 0 aids currently for proprioception.

Greetings from the neurodivergent spectrum!

Quick question, can I also have the opposite of these?

I really need supervision.

No, really, I am a danger to myself and others. Please keep an eye on me

For me, I would pick supervision.

A finger of the monkey's paw curls, you are now supervised at all times.

Super vision.

I wanna be like Jeffery Combs seeing the world through his exposed pineal gland.

Vision. As I've gotten older I have noticed that my eyes aren't what they used to be, and I find it annoying. I'd love to compensate for that.

I'm definitely picking super vision. I'd even settle for perfectly normal vision.

As a guy who wears glasses, heightened vision would be awesome.

Super hearing would be great, too. I'd love to be able to hear all the nuances of music and be able to hear it without turning it up.

Super smelling. Not for any real advantage. My regular sense of smell just sucks.

Super hearing, to the point of echolocation (Which apparently some blind people can actually do in a very basic form as a learned skill!?)

I have really good hearing and it honestly sucks sometimes because you can't really not hear some things when you really, really, really wish you couldn't.

With super-vision at least I can close my eyes.

There’s also superpain, but I don’t think many would want that…

Assuming supertaste enables me to make broccoli taste like Pad Thai. I’ll go with that one.

If it only heightens the sense - then probably less likely to pick that one.

Considering I’ve got sensory sensitivity to almost all of that (yay being ND) any further would sound like hell.

I would enjoy the enhanced ability to feel hunger cues appropriately or have a superhuman ability to interpret and react to my inner feelings, beyond even neurotypical capacities.

supervision so i can finish my licensure without having to pay $50 a week to talk to the supervisor

Depends if I can turn it on and off at will, or if it's on all the time. Even super vision would likely result in a sensory overload, even seeing the inside of your eyelids when you close your eyes!

Supervision for sure. No more glasses!

Vision makes the most sense for something useful and marketable

None. I'd be happy with seeing and hearing properly.

I have stronger than average taste and smell. Do not recommend. Various things taste pretty awful, I'm more sensitive to smells and even things I like can become overwhelming.

I used to be able to see better in the dark than anyone I know, but that has faded with age. I've also always been somewhat colorblind so fixing that might be nice. I would also fix my hearing being kinda wonky (as in basically useless whenever multiple things are producing sound at once).

I'm tempted to want some kind of better balance or electromagnetic perception (though that one could be awful for the same reason I wouldn't want to see much beyond what I do on the visible light spectrum since UV radiation and infrared could be a wall of noise).

hearing, because we cant hear like ultrasonic or infrasonic frequencies the way some animals can, plus hearing things on the otherside of the planet, ability to control or filter unnecessary noises, barring supernatural abilities as well. plus vision that we can see x rays and gamma rays, and UV without a medical disease, microscopic vision.

Superfeel. I want to feel a speck of dust and know someone farted 2 km away.

There are many dimensions to each of our senses. Just taking super-vision as an example, would that involve seeing very small things, seeing things at great distances, seeing through things or around corners, seeing more colors and/or wavelengths of light, seeing in 360°, seeing more subtle things than others see (like being able to see when someone's heart rate increases), processing what you see quicker (for quicker reactions), photographic memory, seeing things others can't (like magnetic fields or temperature), greater "frame rate", seeing in the dark, a HUD with information display, seeing ghosts, or something else entirely I haven't even thought of?

Super hearing. So I can actually hear what people are saying in cafes

Please no. My senses are already through the roof thanks to PTSD. It's hell.

Supervision?

Since when is being a manager a super power?

Superfeel = congratulations, now you prematurely ejaculate and flu season is hell

the ability to feel where all your body parts are (you can close your eyes, wave your hands around, and touch your knee)

Super proprioception, the ability to know how good is your hairdo without looking.

Nah, I want the vision one.