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Robbie Williams 'meeting with ADHD professionals' after receiving autism diagnosis

Robbie Williams has opened up on being diagnosed with autism and pals are saying he is taking the diagnosis in his stride

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Robbie Williams has revealed he has been diagnosed with autism, after seeking a professional assessment. He said he had been feeling like there was something he was missing about himself and wanted to get a professional opinion.

The singer, 52, is said to be taking the news in his stride, according to pals, and has started speaking to an expert.

"Ive got ADHD. Ive just found out Ive got a bit of autism as well, which I f**ing love, because it explains so much, and its like a get-out-of-jail card now," he said. If I do all the weird s*** that I do, I go, Sorry, Im autistic.'"

Robbie also suffers from clinical depression and said he becomes "utterly obsessed" with creating "funny things". "If Im creating images and making what I think are funny things, Im not thinking about me'," he said.

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The former Take That star joked that he is using his new diagnosis as his 'get-out-of-jail-free card now'(Image: Mikkel Berg Pedersen/EPA/Shutterstock)

"My brain is incredibly creative, and it can be creative about everything in the world, including things that can cause you to panic or be scared."

Sources told The Sun that while Robbie has known about his ADHD for some time, he has recently started speaking to an expert following his official diagnosis.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, affects the way the brain works, particularly when it comes to tasks that require memory, concentration or being still.

"Like with everything life throws at him, Robbie is taking the diagnosis in his stride," the source said, before adding the diagnosis has given the former Take That star a greater understanding of what makes himself him.

Towards the end of last year, Robbie told fans that he was sure he also had Tourette's syndrome. He said: Ive just realised that I have Tourettes, but they dont come out.

"I was just walking down the road the other day and I realised that these intrusive thoughts are inside Tourettes.

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Speaking on the Im ADHD! No Youre Not podcast, he added: "You would think that a stadium full of people professing their love to you would work, but whatever it is, inside me, cannot hear it. This tour in particular, as a 51-year-old, Ive approached it differently because I seem to be in the space to approach things differently.

"I have a very complicated relationship with touring and performing live. People say: Oh, you going on tour? You must be really, really excited. Not really. Im terrified. I mask, like Im an Olympian at masking," Robbie admitted.

"I will look full of bravado and look pompous and look smug and do these grand gestures, which have worked for me because they put my face on the poster and people still buy tickets but actually whats happening is I feel like the opposite of that all the time, most of the time.

"Its getting better. I would say its gotten better from 45 onwards. This particular tour that Im now in, Im very pleased to say, for me, is that Im dead excited to do my show that Im doing tomorrow and I was excited to do one last week.

"I said to the wife while I was rehearsing, I said, Ive got that PTSD stuff about performance, whatever it was in the Take That years and whatever it was subsequently when I got to the top of the mountain and it didnt fix me. In fact, it made things worse inside me. Whatever all of that stuff was, I still get triggered from it and it still affects me."

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