I guess the experiences for me in this department were there but slightly more standard. I felt like I was on a different velocity path of motivation than other people. When I was in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade I felt like I was absolutely roaring with potential, motivation, personality, and it was a bit like all the kids around me were these quiet drones that you could barely scare a conversation out of.
As time went on of course things changed, I noted that my developmental curve was just different and similarly I maxed out at certain points where the line between what I saw of myself was curtailed by what the world allowed to be valid. That helped to stay my development in certain ways while other people just kept going right on past me.
Now I still feel that velocity difference. The thing that's changed though - I feel like I've achieved as much, gotten enough depth, gotten enough going for me in terms of skillsets, experiences, etc. that I'd be roughly equal to so many of the same NT's who'd be held out as way above me or a bit like they live in a reality that's dancing well over my head (if I were to buy into 'league's).
I'm realizing that what I need to keep doing in my life wherever possible is to keep pressing ways to find common ground with other people, even if it's in a very uneven manner (ie. night and day opposite in some senses and heartfelt in others). I really don't feel like there's a reason for me to keep myself on the outside and hide behind a small cluster of friends and so much of gaining that ground with people helps patch my vulnerabilities.
As far as value systems are concerned though - yes. It can be tough to tell how so many people resign themselves to graduate highschool, get married, and spend the next 50 or 60 years on loop breathing and paying taxes. The lack of curiosity is what's toughest for me to relate to in many NT's. Admittedly though then again I'd tend to say, with no measurement but just kinda licking my finger and holding it in the air - it seems like maybe 1/3 of NT's are like us in terms of seeking information, trying to get to know their world, having authenticity at that level, 1/3 are bumps on a log, and the other 1/3 are somewhere between. I tend to find good friends in the first category and I consider myself greatful for that. Still, there's hardly anything stranger than rolling deep, hanging out at VIP areas of hot lounges, even riding in style somewhere, and beginning to get that sinking feeling of loneliness the moment you step into that poshed-out environment with the instant realization that you're in a hot zone with all the hot props and just as a person aren't set up right for social networking. I was out with friends in a limo Saturday night and I had that feeling sink in quicker than usual and it took a lot of money on drinks for me to snap out of it.