For Tallulah Willis, an Instagram throwback about her father, Bruce Willis, evolved into a public conversation about her experience with autism.
Tallulah, the 30-year-old daughter of the "Die Hard" star and his ex-wife, actor Demi Moore, revealed over the weekend that she was diagnosed with autism last year.
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