@louis That is how the term is used by the bulk of liberals these days, as a term to refer to the autism spectrum specifically.
When someone asks you "Are you neurodivergent?" If you answered with "Yea I think I have thought patterns that are atypical"... they would respond "no no no, I mean are you autistic"...
As of the last year or two almost everyone using that word now uses it to mean autistic.