'"I have quite a bit of education around trauma and trauma reactions... Intellectually, I know dissociation can come in a lot of forms, and that there is no "true" form of dissociation, but more along a continuum of severity..."

Trust ur intuitive self! Any clinician who says u are not truely dissociative, obviously is not familiar with the full spectrum of diagnostic criteria. I personally was diagnosed with DID NOS which is disssociative identity disorder not otherwise specified.