{"id":346338,"date":"2026-03-14T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346338\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:36:13","slug":"irish-rap-star-curtisy-i-was-diagnosed-with-aspergers-and-i-took-it-the-wrong-way-i-thought-i-was-a-weirdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346338\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish rap star Curtisy: \u2018I was diagnosed with Asperger\u2019s and I took it the wrong way. I thought I was a weirdo\u2019 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom working in an Applegreen to a Choice Music Prize nomination, the Dubliner is about to release a new album. He reveals how any fruits of his success will be used to bettering his loved ones\u2019 lives \u2013 including a mobile home for his mam\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Curtisy: 'I think people would say I should probably relax and stop thinking all the time'. Photo: Conor Price\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dd9f71d9-f20d-4842-87a8-88906b41c50a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Curtisy: &#8216;I think people would say I should probably relax and stop thinking all the time&#8217;. Photo: Conor Price<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cJobstown,\u201d says Curtisy, lifting his baseball cap and running a hand through his mop of curls, \u201cis about seven minutes\u2019 drive that way.\u201d He points in a certain direction. We are discussing where the blue plaques might be placed in the Dublin rapper\u2019s hometown of Tallaght one day, should world domination ever come his way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Applegreen garage where he worked for two years and \u201clearned how to talk to human beings\u201d would be one. The Square shopping centre might be another, or the \u201criver\u201d where he went drinking with his friends as a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From working in an Applegreen to a Choice Music Prize nomination, the Dubliner is about to release a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,157993,279],"class_list":["post-346338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lauren-murphy","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}