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Bill Gates’ daughter accidentally reveals billionaire’s medical condition he's never publicly shared

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Updated 07:36 2 May 2025 GMT+1Published 07:30 2 May 2025 GMT+1

Bill Gates’ daughter accidentally reveals billionaire’s medical condition he's never publicly shared

Phoebe Gates says it leads to some 'funny' situations

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

Topics: Bill Gates, Podcast, Celebrity News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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It appears Phoebe Gates has revealed her billionaire dad’s medical condition.

Only, Bill Gates has never publicly shared it himself.

The 22-year-old Stanford student was making an appearance on Alex Cooper’s popular podcast, Call Her Daddy, when she seemed to accidentally let it slip.

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It all came about when the host asked Phoebe what her experience has been like when she’s ever brought home guys to meet her dad.

“For the guy, terrifying. For me, it’s hilarious because my dad’s pretty socially awkward,” the fashion start-up owner explained.

But she then went to make the pretty offhand comment about the Microsoft co-founder's condition that has caused a bit of a stir.

“Like he’s said before, he has Asperger’s. So, like to me, it’s so funny,” Phoebe said.

Phoebe made the comment during a podcast appearance. (Call Her Daddy podcast)
Phoebe made the comment during a podcast appearance. (Call Her Daddy podcast)

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Bill has never spoken out publicly about having Asperger’s syndrome,, but has said he believes he’d be diagnosed with an autism if he was a child today.

LADbible has contacted his reps for comment on this admission from his youngest child.

Asperger syndrome is a form of autism and is used to describe people at the ‘higher functioning end’ of the autistic spectrum. People with Asperger’s are less likely to have learning disabilities that are typically associated with autism and often have average or above average intelligence.

A noticeable trait is that those with Asperger syndrome often develop an ‘almost obsessive interest in a hobby’.

The NHS adds that doctors don’t diagnose people with this anymore, as it’s now thought of as part of the autism spectrum disorder.

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In his memoir released earlier this year, Source Code: My Beginnings, Bill said he believed he would have been diagnosed with a form of autism is he was growing up in this current time.

“During my childhood, the fact that some people’s brains process information differently from others wasn’t widely understood,” he wrote.

Phoebe is the youngest of the Gates kids. (Nina Westervelt/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Phoebe is the youngest of the Gates kids. (Nina Westervelt/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)

“My parents had no guideposts or textbooks to help them grasp why their son became so obsessed with certain projects, missed social cues, and could be rude and inappropriate without seeming to notice his effect on others.”

The philanthropist further opened up in a February interview with Axios when he said: “I always knew I was different in ways that confused people in terms of my energy level and intensity, and going off and just studying things.

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“And it's a little confusing when you're a kid, that you're different, or people react to you in some ways, or your social skills — you're miscuing on various things.”

Bill also looked back to the first time someone suggested he had autism ‘like 25 years ago’.

He said: “I remember thinking, ‘What the hell? What the hell? I run a goddamn company.’ And then I realized, well, actually, it’s probably true. I mean, the spectrum thing is confusing.”

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