The third person usage....

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I do this when I am talking to myself, and I occasionally, when frustrated with myself, I will call myself by name. I am not DID either, but I experience my mind as having sub entities, or as if my right brain and left brain almost process thoughts separately. However, I never refer to myself in third person to others.

I have been referring to myself in the third person since I was very young, and still do.
In addition, I also refer to the people who are my intimates, be they friends or chosen family, in the third person.

For more than two decades I have been being called 'The Woman' while my primary partner is 'The Man' and so on...

It was an artifact of my language usage that the doctors I was taken to when I was a small child in the 70s latched on to and decided meant that I was a 'psychopath'.

Needless to say, nothing good came out of that diagnosis, and I commonly refer to the times that followed it as being my 'Oprah childhood'.

I never done that & I get annoyed when others do it.

Well I do this all the time. My real name is Savannah and I speak of myself as The Savsie. I think it's probably really irritating to other people and I don't mean to be irritating I've just always done it. I think in the third person as well and I have a gifted IQ so def not mental retardation. To me it's more of a sense of humour thing. I don't know. I didn't know until just now it was linked to Autism, which I am diagnosed with.

Perhaps it's a lack of experience on the part of that young mental health professional... or an artefact* of working mostly with one form of autism?

I've been autistic for over 60 years and never self-refer in third person. My father and both uncles were also autistic and likewise had no problem using "I" and "me" as needed. Same with "you" as appropriate.

Reminds me of a biology text in which I read the confident assertion that only horses exhibit the flehmen reaction (a way of intensifying scent when smelling something, by opening the mouth as they sniff it) - while my cats had just been doing exactly that not ten minutes before (something fascinating on the rug, I think catnip).

Even the experts aren't always

*this is the correct spelling; means a spurious observation or result (there's more to it but that will suffice).

I known people who did that & were narcissistic or very full of themselves.

Only met one person who ever did that.

A strange young man hired to work in my girl friends office.

He would do things like falsify his time card. One day they confronted him about it, and he ended up hanging his head in shame and shaking his head and explaining to them that "I don't know why Bob gets into so much trouble." Or whatever his name was.

Don't know if he was on the autism spectrum or not. Kinda doubt it.