Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend and Canadian singer Grimes recently shared a post on X, revealing she has been diagnosed with autism this year. Stating that there’s a “subculture” of “mental healthy accounts” that are “extreme infohazards”, she wrote “Got diagnosed w adhd/ autism this year and realized I’m prob dyslexic which is why I can’t spell at all without spellcheck – I feel like, had we known this when I was a child I would have worked so much less hard”. She further added “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)”.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that deviate from developmental norms and impact daily functioning.
Grimes further wrote:
“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…. I can’t even begin”.
Stating that many are ‘self diagnosing’ the illness, “I feel a huge percentage of adhd is screen addiction and dopaminergic burn out. I think the nature of this uninformed social media mental health subculture is rly a big concern. Some are great ofc but a lot of these seem like explicitly anti civilizational and geared towards making people worse.”
Grimes shares the hardest part of parenting
Recently, Grimes opened up about facing parenting struggles on X. The Canadian singer-songwriter (real name Claire Boucher) Grimes shares three children with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Tau Techno Mechanicus.
In an X post, she wrote “Why is putting kids to bed arguably one of the hardest things to accomplish. I remember being a horror about going to bed too What is the evolutionary reason for this Am I missing something? Like the story can’t be too good or they get turnt and wake up – meaning it has to be an exercise in bad art. I deeply resent having to spend so much time with bad art in order to bore children to sleep – something seems morally wrong here – and like conceptually wrong. Is there a way to not wake them up with cool ideas or art and still get them to sleep? Is this common issue? I know I tortured my parents with this same thing – like demanding more and more stories and taking like an hour or more to sleep and getting up if they tried to leave the room before I was asleep.”