Grimes has shared that she was recently been diagnosed with both autism and ADHD, and expressed concern about people who are self-diagnosing themselves or their children with these conditions.
The singer, songwriter, and producer revealed her diagnoses in a lengthy Twitter post, quote-tweeting an account called ADHD Memes in response to a meme about “excessive reading in childhood” being a “sign of dissociation.”
“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, 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,” she wrote.
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She continued, considering the idea that self-diagnoses are a slippery slope toward misattributing behavior, especially in children. “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 think the nature of this uninformed social media mental health subculture is rly a big concern.”
For her part, she feels that a primary contributor to ADHD diagnoses are “screen addiction and dopaminergic burn out.” In a later comment, she claimed to not want her post to invalidate those with ADHD symptoms, but that “modern life can simply give ppl a lot of dsm checklist adhd symptoms,” hence a larger amount of self-diagnoses found on TikTok and other social media. “Say u scroll social media all day u can absolutely create enough adhd symptoms to be diagnosed under the dsm – and I worry about this,” she wrote in a comment. “I just think unsupervised medical advice and proliferation of info about symptoms is a very tricky thing.”
Grimes’ comments on mental illness and social media follow her recent plea to ex-partner Elon Musk to keep their children “offline” and for the public to respect her and her family’s privacy. “We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning,” she wrote on Twitter this month. The public plea echoed her statement to TIME regarding Musk’s parading of their son X around the White House in February: “I would really like people to stop posting images of my kid everywhere.”
I have to say, there’s this subculture of I guess “mental health” accounts that I actually think are like, extreme infohazards.
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… https://t.co/2zzT91z0QJ
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) March 22, 2025
No but symptoms are – and the way the dsm works is – say u scroll social media all day u can absolutely create enough adhd symptoms to be diagnosed under the dsm – and I worry about this
And yeh like – many have reported the phenomenon that learning abt various mental disorders…
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) March 22, 2025
I don’t think this is to invalidate the experience of having the symptoms but yes, modern life can simply give ppl a lot of dsm checklist adhd symptoms
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) March 22, 2025
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