DAILYMAIL.COM – The 37-year-old singer-songwriter shared the news with her fans on Saturday as she hit out at an account called ‘ADHD Memes’ which had posted a screengrab of an X post.
It read: ‘I saw a TikTok about how excessive reading in childhood is a sign of dissociation and I can’t stop thinking about it.’
Grimes, who shares three children with Elon Musk, responded to the post while offering insight into her own diagnosis.
‘I have to say, there’s this subculture of I guess “mental health” accounts that I actually think are like extreme infohazards,’ she said.
‘Got diagnosed w ADHD/ autism this year and realized I’m prob dyslexic which is why I can’t spell without spellcheck.’
She said that if she had known that she has ADHD and autism as a child, ‘I would have worked so much less hard’ and would have been put on medication for the conditions.
The Genesis singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, also argued that her ‘weird obsessions and motivations’ would likely have been viewed as ‘pathological’ at the time’:
“I saw a TikTok about how excessive reading in childhood is a sign of dissociation and I can’t stop thinking about it. I could have written off certain things that were very hard for me, but I’m glad I over came [sic] them.”
She then said she believes a ‘huge percentage’ of ADHD diagnoses are related to ‘screen addiction and dopaminergic burn out.’
The National Institutes of Health has published a study showing that ‘excessive use of electronic media has been found to be associated with physical and psychological adverse consequences, including poor sleep, decreased social coping and increased ADHD symptoms …
