Ye recently doubled down on having autism, sharing that he discovered this after his wife Bianca Censori questioned his previous bipolar diagnosis.
Speaking with Justin Laboy in the clip above, Ye addressed his 2016 bipolar diagnosis and discussed recognizing mental health episodes around the 15:37 mark.
“I watch for it beforehand, but other times it was just like… if you get to the point where it goes, you’re gonna stay in that position for a while,” Ye said. “It might go for three days, four days, a week. Some people, if they get into it, you gotta put them in a place that’s not in public. It depends on the level of what it is. But another thing is they call it specifically, you know, bipolar.”
He hinted that he no longer accepts his bipolar diagnosis, which he’d explored on his 2018 album Ye.
“They put that on me—I said it,” Ye explained. “I put it on an album. People start calling you na, you start calling yourself na. You call a girl a bitch, she start calling herself a bitch.”
After telling Elon Musk in leaked texts that his near-fatal 2002 car crash left him with “signs of autism,” Ye said Censori pushed him to get checked out by a different doctor.
“I went to this doctor, one that worked with Justin Bieber,” he revealed. “My wife took me to do that because she say, ‘Something about your personality doesn’t feel like it’s bipolar. I’ve seen bipolar before’ … [I came] to find out it’s really a case of autism that I have.”
He brought up the 1988 film Rain Man, featuring Dustin Hoffman as a man with autism.
“Autism takes you to a Rain Man thing where you’re like, ‘Oh man, I’m gonna wear this Trump hat.’ Because it’s just like Trump in general, and then when people tell you not to do it, you just get on that one point. And that’s my problem when fans tell me to do my album a certain way, I’ll do it the opposite way just because [sings the opening of ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’].”
While Ye’s shown traits like hyperfixation that can be linked to autism and is known for being stubborn, it’s not clear if he’s gotten an official autism diagnosis or just reached this conclusion after a medical consultation.
The full chat with Justin Laboy is available above.
