Muni Long Reveals She’s Autistic, Says Repression Led To Lupus

Marc Griffin
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Muni Long reveals she’s autistic. On Sunday (Dec. 3), the singer took to X/Twitter to provide a health update. Long disclosed last year that she had lupus. However, she believes repressing her condition exacerbated her lupus disease.

“So apparently, I’m autistic, and my free self is the version of me that I began repressing at the age of 22 because it made people highly uncomfortable,” she said. “It started first with me doing insane amounts of drugs, and then when that didn’t work, I just held it in, which led to lupus.

“And now the lupus has gotten to a point where it’s effectively impossible to contain. In order to free myself from the rollercoaster that is an autoimmune disease, I have to let my emotions, thoughts, and feelings out….But….Autism! OMG WTF THIS IS SO WACK. But at least knowing I am autistic explains SO MUCH,” she concluded.

According to REVOLT, Long opened up about her autoimmune disease last year. While appearing on Black Girl Stuff, she talked about living with lupus. She expressed that life with lupus is “difficult,” especially in show business. However, for her career, she has to power through the pain.

“Lupus is a stress-related disease. It’s a silent, invisible struggle ’cause you can’t see it. You wake up in the morning and you look just fine, but you really feel like you got ran over by a train… There’s a lot of different things that I’ve experienced with this diagnosis, everything from hair loss to skin rashes. Being in this business is vainglorious, so that affects my output so much,” the “Hrs & Hrs” artist explained.

“When I feel good, I look good, I produce well. When I feel like crap, and I gotta go out… Even something as small as someone touching my arm, it hurts. But I gotta smile, and I gotta talk to people when I don’t feel like talking.”

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