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Tallulah Willis Says She Thought She Was “Very Broken” Before Receiving Autism Diagnosis: “I Really Hated Myself”

She was diagnosed at 29.

The entrepreneur and artist stopped by NBC’s TODAY on Wednesday, where she discussed her experience learning about her diagnosis and how it gave her clarity in her life. “I was misdiagnosed for many years, so only at 29 got my diagnosis, which is very common, specifically for adult women,” she told hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie. And so it’s only been in the last year that I’m learning what the terms are and regulating because I’m very high functioning autistic, and my struggles are more in sensory, so being very sensitive to the world, and rather than more commonly people assume it’s communication.”

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