Can you be autistic and still have a good ability to understand what people might be thinking and why they might be acting the way they are?

Sorry for the long post, I’d appreciate anyone reading it.

It was expressed by a professional that I very likely had autism it was also expressed by most of my friends who had autistic relatives. By acknowledging the idea that I had autism and it’s traits it made my life so much better because so many of them lined up and made things make sense but I never got an official diagnosis because I didn’t think it was needed. But now my therapist is claiming she doesn’t think I do have autism because of my skill in being able to analyse what people are thinking and why they’re behaving how they’re behaving. She claims I could just be “an intelligent mind that has nowhere to express itself and surrounded by people who don’t think on the same level” and “the number one constant trait of autism is a problem with communication” but I think that might sound a bit anti autism or narrow. She also doesn’t see all the other traits that made so much sense to me in my other variety of life that isn’t just me talking about my feelings and analysing other peoples feelings in a therapy session.