Tallulah Willis
Autism diagnosis changed her life
Tallulah Willis has made her autism diagnosis public.
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Tallulah Willis made it public that she was diagnosed with autism with a children’s video on Instagram.
At Tallulah Willis, 30, has been diagnosed with autism. The daughter of Bruce Willis, 68, and Demi Moore, 61, revealed this with an Instagram video showing a childhood memory.
In the clip, Willis appears on the red carpet with her father. He is carrying the ten-year-old in his arms while he gives an interview – while she is concentrating on stroking his head. Willis writes: “Tell me you’re autistic without telling me you’re autistic.”
In the comments, a follower praises Tallulah for posting the clip and asks if she was diagnosed as a child. In her response, Willis says it is the “first time” she has made her diagnosis public. “I found out this summer and it changed my life,” she writes. In another comment, she describes herself as “neurospicy” – a humorous term for a diagnosis on the autism spectrum.
This is how an autism spectrum disorder manifests itself
The Federal Association for the Support of People with Autism lists the characteristics of autism spectrum disorder as difficulties in “assessing and sending social and emotional signals.” It continues: “Reactions to other people’s feelings or behavioral adjustments to social situations are rarely appropriate.” Degrees of expression vary from person to person.
Tallulah deals openly with mental and physical illnesses. Before her autism diagnosis, she also spoke about her depression, ADHD, borderline disorder and anorexia. Just last month, she wrote on Instagram about her eating disorder, that in unhealthy times she romanticized what it felt like “to go through the day with that body size.” She further pointed out, “I just wanted to say it because I know (hope) I’m not alone.”