Taylor Swift’s impact on music, among many other things, has been a subject of interest for various experts. Just as when the NFL made $122 million in brand value from the “Taylor Swift Effect.” Sports analysts even said her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce made him “sizzling hot.” Around that time, a psychologist also made an admittedly “controversial” take on the singer’s “spellbinding sorcery.”

According to Dr. Kim Gillbee, PhD, the Love Story performer – who’s been slammed for her “wasteful” use of her private jet – is “likely autistic” based on her songs, public behavior, and her well-documented dating history. The expert even said that Swift would struggle with her career if she were to work on these “possible” issues. Here’s why.

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Taylor Swift Is “Likely Autistic” Due To Her “Hyper Focus” And “Childlike Quality”

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In February 2024, Dr. Gillbee published an article on Medium called, “Taylor’s Totalitarianism: Psychologist Reveals 3 Controversial Insights into Swift’s Spellbinding Sorcery.” The psychologist started the piece by saying, “Megastar isn’t strong enough; we need a new word to describe the power of influence that is Taylor Swift circa 2024.”

But later in the introduction, she revealed how she finds the Swift hype deceitful. “Now, through my training and working with people for so many years, I’ve developed a pretty good bulls**t meter,” said Gillbee. She then listed “three of [her] very controversial opinions on the current celestial commander-in-chief to rattle some cages.”

“1.She is Autistic,” Dr. Gillbee wrote about Swift. “Although not possible to diagnose anyone without a proper assessment, my impression, based on clinical experience, is that Taylor is likely on the autism spectrum.”

She added that “while autistic males are more likely to struggle verbally and appear emotionally aloof, females are usually more verbally skilled, empathic, and emotionally sensitive. However, they may struggle to manage and contain their emotions.”

“Females on the spectrum are also often exquisitely sensitive to the human experience and the nuances of felt emotion, something Taylor puts to brilliant use in her music. The singer has spoken about using music to help her cope with overwhelming emotions and experiences.”

Gillbee also said that Swift’s songs, Maroon and Lavender Haze may prove that she has a “common comorbidity of autism… synesthesia, a condition where sensory stimulus involuntarily elicits an experience in a different sensory pathway, such as seeing colors as feelings or perceiving numbers in specific locations or events.”

The expert explained: “She regularly equates feelings to colors in her music, such as in the songs Maroon and Lavender Haze, and lyrics like ‘loving you was red,’ ‘you showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else,’ and ‘I once believed love would be black and white, but it’s golden.'”

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Then there’s Swift’s “hypermobility,” seen in her elbow trick in a 2016 interview with Vogue where she appeared to be double-jointed. Another sign is her “hyper focus” and “childlike quality.” Gillbee cited how the Grammy record-breaker “has spoken about her obsession with singing and fame that started at a very young age.”

“To the point that she begged her parents to buy her a guitar and move to Nashville,” Gillbee continued. “[Swift] has relentlessly pursued her goal of making it as a country singer. Her music also suggests that boys and dating are a particular hyper focus within Taylor’s life.”

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ And ‘Mirrorball’ May Prove She Just “Mimics” Other People

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Another thing Dr. Gillbee noticed about Swift’s public demeanor is “masking.” The former said “females on the autistic spectrum tend to be more adept at observing and mimicking human social cues than their male counterparts. They often imitate peers to fit in, even if the social skills do not come naturally to them.” She then cited the performer’s songs, Blank Space and Mirrorball as proof:

“As the singer said in her songs Blank Space , she can ‘find out what you want. Be that girl for a month,'” said Gillbee, “and Mirrorball ‘I’m a mirrorball. I can change everything about me to fit in.'”

The psychologist also claimed that it’s why Swift seems “normal” when people meet her in person. “They can become so good at imitating that they almost do a better job at being whatever they are imitating than the thing itself,” Gillbee said of the Cats star. “Celebrities and interviewers who meet Taylor often say they were blown away by how ‘normal’ she is. I think that her life is so abnormal that it’s not normal for her to be normal.”

She continued: “The fact that she comes across as more normal than most real ‘normal’ people you’re likely to meet tells me it’s effortful.” She then quoted Mirrorball again. “As Swift reveals in Mirrorball, ‘I’ve never been a natural. All I do is try, try, try.’ The masking is evident to me when watching Swift speak, in her exaggerated facial expressions and social cues.”

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2019
Swift said she’s “never been to therapy” despite singing she’s “depressed” in I Can Do It With a Broken Heart (2024)

2019
Swift “needed to make music” to “preserve [her] mental health” after being “humiliated” by Kanye West who called her a “b*tch” in his song and Kim Kardashian who labeled her a “snake.”

2020
Swift said in her documentary, Miss Americana, that she previously struggled with an eating disorder

2022
In her song, Anti-Hero, Swift said: “When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room.”

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The Psychologist Said Taylor Swift May Be Suffering From “Vulnerable Narcissism”

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While fans praised Swift’s Anti-Hero for being an honest portrait of sadness, Dr. Gillbee thought it showed how the singer suffers from “vulnerable narcissism” or “covert narcissism,” which the expert studied in her PhD thesis. She was particularly drawn to these lyrics in the song: “Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism? Like some kind of congressman?”

“Like all narcissism, it tends to come from a deep feeling of not belonging or not being good enough that a person subconsciously attempts to cope with by developing a false self,” Gillbee said of Swift.

She added that “the false self attempts to strategically gain a sense of belonging… In the covert form, this looks like an attempt to make oneself needed by being a universally liked helper type who is often self-deprecating and self-sacrificing.” She then quoted You’re Losing Me, where the 34-year-old billionaire described herself as “a pathological people pleaser. Who only wanted you to see her.”

“This lyric reveals that while Taylor is aware of her dysfunctional approval-seeking behaviors, part of her still identifies as the victim who just wants to be seen,” Gillbee assessed. “An adult longing to be seen indicates a wounding in early childhood related to a lack of mirroring.”