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16 Oct 2024, 1:22 pm

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Kanye West claimed he’s autistic in a new text to Elon Musk.

The Yeezy fashion designer requested his friend Ian Connor share screenshots on Instagram of his purported messages to the Tesla co-founder, in which he also declared he is not bipolar.

“When are we going to speak You owe me nothing,” the texts, posted early Wednesday, began.

“You never have to speak to me again But if we do speak The nature of the relationship has to change I’m not bipolar I have signs of autism from my [2002] car accident,” he said, referring to his famous crash that led to his hit song “Through the Wire” in which he rapped with his jaw wired shut.

West, 46, first revealed he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018 but years later claimed during a Twitter tirade that he was “mentally misdiagnosed.”

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16 Oct 2024, 1:31 pm

Gossip is that autism caused his car crash. :nerdy:


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16 Oct 2024, 2:12 pm

Reminds me when I once had a "friend" that thought him being hit by a car made him autistic and that brain damage caused autism.

He wasn't even diagnosed but decided he had it too and being hit by a car caused it. Then he tried to deny he never said he was hit by a car. Talk about gas lighting.


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17 Oct 2024, 12:56 am

I suppose there might be a little less stigma towards autism than bipolar.



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18 Oct 2024, 4:56 pm

This is one of the situations where it kind of could happen under the previous diagnostic guidelines, a young child that got a head injury could wind up with more or less PDD-NOS. But, I think that it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that that's the thing people are referring to ASD these days.



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19 Oct 2024, 11:22 pm

I have to hand him one thing--he's saved Elon from being the worst thing for autism representation in our lifetimes.



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19 Oct 2024, 11:58 pm

If he has autism, he would have had it before the auto accident. He sounds delusional.


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20 Oct 2024, 12:47 am

justkillingtime wrote:
If he has autism, he would have had it before the auto accident. He sounds delusional.


For a dude with both untreated bipolar and a history of psychosis delusional seems perfectly on-brand.


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20 Oct 2024, 1:47 am

Even if he does have autism that does not undo his Trump obsession or sexism he's expressed, idk if he's autistic or not I don't really buy it but even it was true autism is not an excuse to be an absolute as*hole.


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20 Oct 2024, 8:04 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
Even if he does have autism that does not undo his Trump obsession or sexism he's expressed, idk if he's autistic or not I don't really buy it but even it was true autism is not an excuse to be an absolute as*hole.


There’s a culture of antipsychiatry on the right that tends to be weird about mental illness, a category in which they include autism. For instance, when Greta Thunberg spoke before Congress in 2019, and it was reported that she was on the spectrum, some conservatives argued that she was being taken advantage of—as if her autism meant she was a mentally incapacitated person incapable of thinking independently. They were adopting a tone of fake sympathy to put her down by implying she lacked agency. Unfortunately, that’s how a lot of the public understands autism.

With regard to his denial of having bipolar disorder on the grounds that Jewish doctors are trying to control him, putting aside the anti-Semitism for the moment, it’s common for people with psychosis to claim the meds are an attempt to poison them. But with him, some part of me is reluctant to pathologize his behavior, because it just feels like everything he says is an attempt to deflect blame. He always talks as if he never can do any wrong, that everything is always somebody else’s fault. He was like this even a couple of decades ago when he was occasionally saying things I kind of agreed with (“Bush doesn’t care about black people”). If there’s any pathological explanation for him, I think it would be more in the realm of NPD than bipolar disorder or autism. Barring that, maybe at least part of the problem is his years of being a mega-superstar where so many people worship at his feet. Not everyone in his position becomes this obnoxious, but it can’t be healthy for anyone’s soul.