This was revealed by herself in an interview, two years after a film of hers aroused criticism for the characterization of a person with this disorder.
Last Thursday May 26, Sia Kate Isobelle Furlerknown simply as siaappeared on Rob Cesternino’s podcast, there the interpreter of “chandelier” revealed that she was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
In this regard, and after having understood what had afflicted her for so many years, Sia confessed to finally feeling herself. “For 45 years I’ve felt like ‘I have to put on my human suit.’ And only in the last two years have I really come to be fully myself.”.
The singer also talked about how people with ASD feel when they begin their adaptation process and how cathartic it can be to just have a normal conversation with the people around them.
“No one can know or love you when you are full of secrets and live in shame. And when we finally sit in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest, darkest, most embarrassing secrets, and everyone laughs with us, and we don’t feel like pieces of trash for the first time in our lives, and we We feel seen for the first time in our lives for who we really 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.”
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The shock after Sia’s revelation
The revelation caused a great impact among the singer’s fans because in 2021, sia directed, produced and wrote the film Music. This tells the story of Kazu “Zu” Gamble (Kate Hudson), a drug dealer who must take care of her half-sister, Music Gamble, who is a non-verbal autistic. Music was performed by Maddie Ziegleractress and dancer who has collaborated in many of Sia’s video clips but who is not on the autism spectrum, which caused the discontent of this community.
Although Sia did not share details of what symptoms she has suffered, it is known that these can include learning disabilities, problems with social interactions, problems paying attention (or on the contrary, an obsession with very specific topics). ), anxiety, high sensitivity and even self-mutilation.
Source: Ambito
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