What has been your biggest revelation about NTs?

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Probably my biggest revelation about NTS - more a realisation than a revelation really - is their general reluctance for thinking outside the square and an often automatic acceptance wholesale of conventional ideas, as if these were set in stone; and (sadly) their often bitter resentment of those who do question ("Why do you have to rock the boat??? Who do you think you are etc etc?" Why do you have to be different? etc etc)

Way back when people unquestionably believed the earth was flat, this was the received truth and any independent thinkers who dared to suggest otherwise were persecuted and killed- even though the flat earth dogma was bulldust, and the Greeks had demonstrated that the earth was a globe long before, even calculating its circumference - astonishingly very near to its actual measurement.

So there is one group of people (mainly NT) who believe stuff because someone told them it was true. And a much smaller group of people (some NTs, more often auties perhaps) who question received ideas, however entrenched in popular thinking, however "commonsensical" these false notions are held to be by the majority,

So it had to be an ASD child - I think - who dared to say "Wow - the emperor has no clothes on, his thing is showing! What do you all think of that?" I wonder how long it took for his bruises to fade, or if he survived the beating at all. Sometimes truth is the most radical thing anyone can say. Especially amongst the common-sense tribe.

In these sorts of situations, it's best not to mention the family member at all--but to generalize it to "people tend to do this" and "people tend to do that." Or say that it applies to YOUR family member, too.

Scientifically-based inquiry, in all seriousness, is essential.

I believe that the earth is a sphere, that it revolves around the sun, that it is billions of years old, and that it originated through the cooling of gasses.

The Big Bang? I really don't know. I have more of a belief in a steady-state universe which has its ebbs and flows.

Reincarnation: It's a faint, faint hope.

You should look at some of the videos of the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions.

I've done a lot of looking into the Apollo missions and there seems to be a lot discrepancies. I admit I'm a very suspicious person, but I look at everything with an open mind and a scientific approach. I'll do some digging on the mercury and gemini missions and get back to ya.

Regarding empathy, my finding is that many NT's can't help but use it as a crutch. Firstly, there's a lot of confusion about compassion and empathy, and the sometimes use the terms interchangeably. Empathy is the ability to read what the other person is going through, compassion is the ability or willingness to care.

For many NT's it's never occurred to them that you can have compassion without empathy. So if you manifest pain, distress, or discomfort in a way that doesn't trigger their hind-brain empathy circuits, they just can't wrap their heads around the fact that they're causing you pain and so just continue. It's something I've learned to be careful of.

You see this in donations, giving money for those they "feel for," rather than those in most need, or to the organizations that have been audited as doing the most good.

Also in discussions of animal rights. Animals capable of human-like expression are automatically assumed to be more likely to be capable of suffering.

In other words, their empathy works well for getting along with people who look and act like them. Where it doesn't work, they don't have the tools to avoid being unintentionally cruel. It's something you need to be careful of when around them.

If the world was flat, people taking around-the-world trips via ship would have floated into space.

Ever since at least Ancient Greek days, it was pretty much ascertained that the world is a spheroid--not a perfect sphere, of course.

If there's a God/gods/etc, I believe this Creator would have created a complex, rounded planet rather than a flat one. It just makes more sense.

Regarding the flat earth. I hope you're not using a GPS to get around. A spherical earth is implicit in the calculations used to determine location, even down to the relativistic time dilation seen between a surface of a spherical mass and the satellites further out in orbit.

As they're currently designed, they would be dangerously wrong on a flat earth.