In mid-March, Tallulah Willis, one of the daughters of Die Hard and Demi Moore, revealed that she has autism. True, she was not diagnosed in childhood. According to the largest research organization Autism Speaks, 80% of girls with this disorder do not know they have it by the age of 18. The actor’s heiress is among them: she was diagnosed with autism just a year ago, when she turned 29 years old.
The celebrity said that she always had signs of the disorder, but neither she nor her relatives attached any importance to them. Now, People quotes Tallulah, she “researches” her illness every day. “All my five senses have always been very heightened—a heightened sense of taste, smell, sight, and so on. Now I notice it every day and see how autism affects my life,” she said.
Now the girl is engaged in education in the field of autism. Her stepmother Emma Heming followed a similar path and finds solace in writing a book about the dementia that Bruce Willis suffers from.