While appearing on Fox’s new game show, Nation’s Dumbest, King spoke out about the diagnosis.
“I love games. I love game shows,” she said. “I’m extremely competitive, and I love puzzles and everything. I actually found out right after the show that I’m autistic, and so I was like, ‘Everything makes so much sense now.”
She then shared, “But I didn’t even know.”
King further admitted she began to doubt herself after signing up for the game show.
“Right before the show, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh,’” she said. “[I was] starting to panic, ‘There is a scenario that you could be the nation’s dumbest.’”
The “Ex’s & Oh’s” hitmaker also revealed that she took an IQ test and was shocked by the results.
“I did an IQ test, and it was rather high, and I didn’t even trust it,” she recalled. “So I took another one, and I got the same score on a different website.”
King seemingly revealed her autism in a May 2026 Facebook post by declaring, “Good news, [I’m] autistic.
During a recent interview with Us Weekly,King got candid about her autism diagnosis.
“I’ve had a lot of not my proudest moments, and so especially with my autism diagnosis,
she said. “I am putting new kinds of safety barricades, and I just want to be around people that I feel safe around, and I just want to do things that bring me joy.”
She then pointed out, “It’s so important to continue. I’m still learning. I don’t understand it. I just don’t want to do things the way that I used to do it because, ultimately, at the end of the day, I truly enjoy being an artist, being a performer, and getting to do all these other things just as myself is really fun for me.”
She went on to add, “I keep telling myself whatever this next chapter is, I really want to be present and enjoy it. That’s what I’m trying to do.”