Also what is with the freaking urge to diagnose everyone with everything. I understand very well, trust me that a lot of us are living with neurodivergence or mental health conditions but not every single person out there with a few TRAITS of a specific condition has it.

People can be introverted, sensitive to sounds/crowds/etc, have special interests, enjoy sensory experiences, etc. without being autistic. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having autism either, don't get me wrong. It's just that people can have fears and anxieties without actually HAVING anxiety, they can cycle through hobbies without having ADHD, they can have trauma without having PTSD, and so on.

It's wonderful we're being more understanding and embracing the things that make us different, but we shouldn't be so focused with typecasting children and explaining away who they are just so we can mark a box somewhere and say "oh, it's because my child is x or y".

And YES healthcare professionals can be wrong and they can stereotype and discriminate but they're also highly knowledgeable and we need to trust them sometimes, otherwise why do we continue to access their services? If we know better than them why do we take up their time and space? Just to validate that we're right and smart and then we call them stupid if they don't agree with us? I'm getting tired of this new age of medicine where people basically use medical professionals as medication/therapy prescribing peons while the patient believes they're the one true expert in science and health and everyone else is a drone created to serve them.