u/Powerful-Double-448

I have never been to therapy before since my family and I never believed in it. But now I am an adult turning 20 soon and I feel like I've been struggling for too long. I feel "stuck". At the same time, I had an epiphany last year after researching autism and autistic burnout.

I feel that I need therapy more than I need an autism diagnosis. But at the same time, being able to confirm that I am autistic could help my therapist better know how to help me. I think it would be great if I could get a therapist who specializes in neurodivergence, but there's still a part of me that wonders if I am just going crazy and I might not actually be neurodivergent at all.

So what do you guys think? Or can I just tell my therapist that I think I'm probably autistic even if I don't have a diagnosis?

I haven't gone to a professional yet but I think I have both depression and autism. However, despite there being a lot of evidence of both, sometimes I wonder if it's just "all in my head" and I am just a depressed introvert, not autistic. If you have or have gone through depression, what do you think differentiates a NT person with depression vs. an autistic person with depression?