Adrian Weckler: I discovered my superpower during fraught LA protests – the invisibility of age

While other journalists were getting a hard time from police, my middle-aged invisibility cloak worked to my advantage

Stand-off: Protesters and police on horseback come face to face in LA last week. Photo: Ethan Swope/AP

Adrian Weckler

In the upcoming superhero film Fantastic Four: First Steps, one of the leads, Susan Storm, has the superpower of turning invisible.

But many of us don’t need to be a Marvel character to experience this. It happens naturally when we pass the age of about 45.