Super Humans: 4 People With Extraordinary Abilities Reveal How Their Superpower Shaped Their Lives
- 'Meet the super humans.' The Observer. Health. Imagine being able to remember everything or feeling no pain. Four people with extraordinary abilities reveal how their superpower has shaped their lives. The Guardian, Jan. 26, 2020.
‘I’ve never felt physical pain’: Jo Cameron, 72, Whitebridge, Scotland. I can understand why it took so long for anyone to notice. It makes sense that the quiet, happy person in the corner gets ignored. It was only when I was in hospital for an operation on my arthritic hand – aged 65 – that the fact I can’t feel pain finally came to light.
I’d only recently had a long-overdue hip replacement. “This will hurt more than the last one, you’ll need more painkillers,” the hospital anaesthetist had told me. I offered to bet any money it wouldn’t when I looked up at him with a smile. He came to see me after the procedure and I wiggled my hand in his face, proudly. “No painkillers,” I said, grinning, “and no pain either.”
Down in London, I went for tests at University College Hospital. In the experiments, my husband was used as the standard – they even took a biopsy from his leg. The researchers found an abundance of a substance called anandamide in my body – so much that I never experience anxiety, fear or pain. Instead, my genes make me happy and forgetful – finally, an explanation for why it feels like every other week I lose the keys to my car.
Before then I’d just assumed I was clumsy, although when I thought about it properly, lots of things began to make sense in retrospect. This explained why I often get undressed and see bruises that I’ve no recollection of acquiring; why during childbirth, after some serious pushing I felt nothing more than a considerable stretch. It’s why the only way I know if I’ve burned myself while cooking is when the aroma of meat reaches my nostrils. I’m a vegan, so what I’m smelling is actually my own scorched flesh...
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- Jo Cameron of Scotland never feels any pain, anxiety or fear.
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..because they didnt know they were injured. Pain has a purpose. So does fear! Also you REALLY want to remember EVERYTHING stupid you did or bad stuff you have seen, heard or read about?
i sure as hell dont 
- From the movie 'Amadeus,' Best Picture 1984. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. January 27, 1756, Salzburg, archbishopric of Salzburg [Austria]—d. December 5, 1791, Vienna), Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical school. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one.
His taste, his command of form, and his range of expression have made him seem the most universal of all composers; yet, it may also be said that his music was written to accommodate the specific tastes of particular audiences.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart
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- Mozart in 1770, age 14.
