Grimes Was Recently Diagnosed with ADHD & Autism

justjared.com:

Grimes is opening up about two recent diagnoses. On Saturday (March 22), the 37-year-old singer, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, revealed that she was diagnosed with ADHD and autism while reflecting on some of her childhood learning struggles. Keep reading to find out more…“I have to say, there’s this subculture of I guess ‘mental health’ accounts that I actually think are like, extreme infohazards,” Grimes started in a lengthy post on X. “Got diagnosed w adhd/ autism this year and realized I’m prob dyslexic which is why I can’t spell at all without spellcheck,” she continued. “I feel like, had we known this when I was a child I would have worked so much less hard, been on drugs, and so many of the weird obsessions and motivations I had would have been seen as pathological and I could have written off certain things that were very hard for me but I’m glad I over came them.

Prob wud have been drugged too.” “Not only can mental illnesses be contagious (in school when we were learning abt various mental illnesses me and a lot of other students noticed we would like start getting symptoms of them during those units – that wud go away once we finished)” Grimes went on. “But ppl r self diagnosing.

And also I feel a huge percentage of adhd is screen addiction and dopaminergic burn out.” She added, “My adhd symptoms were infinitely worse when I wasn’t an avid reader.

An adhd account trying to pathologize one of the best things a child can do to help with adhd (and also become an auto didact and knowledgeable person etc etc) is so dark….