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Grimes Warns Against ‘Social Media Mental Health’ Advice After ADHD and Autism Diagnosis

Grimes shared ADHD and autism diagnosis in new social post warning against taking advice from self-proclaimed mental health accounts on social media.

After receiving a diagnosis of both ADHD and autism as an adult, Grimes has come to view the widespread pop psychology shared across social media as increasingly sinister. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), the musician suggested that accounts sharing generalizations about symptoms that could signify certain mental health conditions has led to an uptick in potentially harmful self-diagnoses. In 2016, she told NPR she “was in a program at McGill [University in Montreal] called Electroacoustics, where we studied a lot of how the brain interacts with music,” which isn’t quite the same thing.

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