Does anyone else have a therapist who labelled them 'neurodivergent' without doing any formal assessments?
So in 2023-2024 I was seeing this therapist and she labelled me as 'neurodivergent' and heavily implied that I was on the autism spectrum without doing any formal assessments. I had BPD, CPTSD, anxiety and depression, and had been living with my extremely toxic parents so I did not have any healthy baseline at that time. She told me I was 'neurodivergent' because I 'think differently compared to other people'.
I do not have any sensory issues and neither have masked before, and after I moved away from my parents, all the mental health problems I had been experiencing and the social difficulties I had previously seemed to vanish instantly. And the more I look back at autistic traits, the less I could relate to any of them. However, my therapist continue to label my thoughts as 'neurodivergent' and everyone else has 'neurotypical thinking'.
I think it's extremely stupid to label thinking as 'neurodivergent' or 'neurotypical', i.e in such binary categories. Everyone has a unique way of thinking, and it's certainly not accurate to collapse how neurodivergent individuals think as just one category. Many neurodivergent people mask, and that could appear as 'neurotypical' on the outside. And neurotypical people can experience trauma, which also can affect how they perceive situations and people. I think what the therapist did was very ableist and frankly, offensive.
I was wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation before, and your thoughts on this matter?
Also: this therapist was not new. She had been practicing for more than 15 years. And no, she's not an 'older' therapist - she's actually quite a progressive Millennial therapist.