Not acknowledging feeling of others and too honest.

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OP, I have done EXACTLY THIS to my father-in-law's family, even my husband. I'm a nurse, and he was in need of immediate medical care. They were all 'emoting' about how 'horrible' he had been treated, and how bad he looked, and how little he was able to interact with people (sudden decline in cognitive abilities as well as irreversible dementia with no diagnosed cause).
I told them they needed to stop, because their emotions didn't matter. Their feelings didn't matter. What MATTERED was getting FIL the treatment and attention that he needed. I DID explain that the longer they took to REACT to these situations, the longer FIL would be waiting for interventions.

It caused a lot of problems, a lot of division, and I don't speak with three of the people involved because they got so mad at me. It's whatever, I have to move on. I can understand they would have feelings about it, but I don't understand why they cannot compartmentalize things and do what has to be done. If a child comes to you because they get hurt, do you freak out first? Or get them help first, and then freak out? It is no different.

I'm sure one could learn to work around it, but really I think it would end up being a patch to make you 'look' normal. Or like a filler, that you know you have to FIRST consider their feelings, or at least act like it, so that you can continue on to doing what needs to be done. (I've been called overly-pragmatic, cold, and too logical. And emotionless).

Also (adding because I read farther in your thread), that whole coping stuff I mentioned I think goes under 'scripting' in a way.

As far as 9/11, it affected me only because of the religious environment I was raised in and believed in at the time. It was hailed as a sign of the end of the world, and THAT scared me. Statistically speaking, it isn't the worst attack, and we have so few, it isn't really something to be afraid of. To me. That is. I don't quite understand WHY people believed it to be damaging to show footage on tv. If you were there, I would understand, but if not? Nope. Don't get it.

Before I babble on endlessly, I'll submit this. (Oh, I get you on the babbling about things you know about. My topics are different, but the same).

I only pick up the fairly obvoius body language but not the subtle body language. I was clueless that
I was missing some body language until getting disgnosed at age 55. I was flabbergasted to learn that something like 90 percent of human communication is non verbal.