Siais sharing news with her fans.
“I’m on the spectrum, and I’m in recovery and whatever — there’s a lot of things,” the singer, 47, said onan episode ofRob Has a Podcast, which also featured Carolyn Wiger, finalist onSurvivorSeason 44.
While she has talked abouther sobrietyin the past, this is the first time she has mentioned her late autism diagnosis.
“For 45 years, I was like … ‘I’ve got to go put my human suit on,'” said Sia, whomarried Dan Bernadearlier this month. “And only in the last two years have I become fully, fully myself.”
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave, according to theNational Institutes of Health. Although it can be diagnosed at any age, symptoms generally appear in the first two years of life.
On the podcast, Sia opened up about his she has been feeling the past few years: “Nobody can ever know and love you when you’re filled with secrets and … living in shame," she said.
“And when we finally sit in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets, and everybody laughs along with us, and we don’t feel like pieces of trash for the first time in our lives, and we feel seen for the first time in our lives for who we actually are, and then we can start going out into the world and just operating as humans and human beings with hearts and not pretending to be anything."
The singer revealed she received a late autism diagnosis.
The announcement comes two years after the “Chandelier” singer was criticized for casting frequent collaboratorMaddie Ziegler, who is neurotypical, as a character on the autism spectrumin her movieMusic.
After the first trailer for the movie dropped, critics and autism advocacy groups reacted tothe one-minute teaser, slamming the decision to have theDance Momsalum cast in the title role rather than an actor on the autism spectrum.
Sia defended the film on Twitter at the time.
source: people.com
