Bruce Willis’ Daughter Tallulah Says Autism Diagnosis Has ‘Changed My Life’

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Willis Tallulah shares for the first time that he was diagnosed autism.

Willis, 30, shared his health update over the weekend when aware a throwback video on her Instagram page of her with her father.

In the video, her father Bruce Willis holds a young Tallulah in his arms while appearing at a red carpet event. While answering journalists’ questions, her daughter gently rubs her bald head and plays with her ear.

“Tell me your (sic) autistic without telling me your (sic) autistic,” he wrote in the caption.

In the comments, one user praised Tallulah for being “brave and inspiring” in sharing the video and asked her to share more about her diagnosis if she felt comfortable doing so.

“This is actually the first time I’ve publicly shared my diagnosis,” she wrote in response.

He went on to write that he was diagnosed with cancer last summer and that “it has changed my life.”

Autism refers to a wide range of conditions and is often “characterized by challenges with social skills and communication and repetitive behaviors, resistance to changes in routine, or restricted interests,” according to Dr. Daniel Geschwind, Distinguished Gordon and Virginia Macdonald. Professor of human genetics, neurology and psychiatry at UCLA.

“I prefer to call it ‘autism’ because it is not a single thing and no two autistic children or adults are exactly the same, even if they share basic characteristics,” Geschwind he told CNN last year.

Tallulah Willis, known for starring on the FOX reality show “Stars on Mars,” has been open with her followers about her health in the past and shared a May 2023 essay written for Fashion that he had “suffered from anorexia nervosa,” depression, addiction and ADHD.

she also has celebrated parts of her healing and progress on her Instagram page, earning praise and support from her followers and family in the comments.

Willis is the youngest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. They are also parents to her daughters Rumer and Scout Willis. Willis remarried and also has two daughters with his wife Emma Heming Willis.

The former couple has stayed together while the “Die Hard” actor lives frontotemporal dementia (FTD)a diagnosis that his family, including Moore, shared publicly in February 2023. statement.