Kanye West's latest bombshell: I am autistic, not bipolar

Kanye West dropped a bombshell on Justin LaBoy's podcast THE DOWNLOAD this week - he's not bipolar after all, but has autism instead. The revelation comes after his current wife suggested he might want to get re-evaluated, suspecting his behaviors might be due to something other than the bipolar disorder he'd been diagnosed with back in 2018.

Since first going public about his mental health in 2018, West has been no stranger to headline-grabbing behavior. The article mentions a particularly chaotic episode where he fired off about 100 tweets in just 90 minutes. He also announced he'd run for U.S. president and made bizarre and hideous blatantly antisemitic statements on social media. At the time, he chalked all this up to his bipolar disorder.

Now, on the podcast, West is attributing these same behaviors to autism, saying it makes him do things that are opposite to what people around him want.

This new explanation isn't sitting well with everyone. Israeli social activist Maya Lee Levi pushed back against using autism as justification for controversial actions. "Autism is a neurology, not morality," she wrote. "It affects how a person experiences and understands the world, but it doesn't make them good or bad."

Levi worries about what this means for the autism community: "When someone influential claims that their problematic behavior stems from their autism, they're not just relieving themselves of responsibility - they're also throwing an entire community that's already used as a slur under the bus."

Her message was clear: "If someone did bad things - they should take responsibility. Don't blame it on their autism. Because being autistic is simply being autistic. No more, no less."