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'Prison Break' actor Wentworth Miller reveals autism diagnosis
Wentworth Miller, known for his iconic role in the series “Prison Break,” just revealed he has been diagnosed with autism.
The 49-year-old actor shared the news on Instagram, expressing his thoughts in the caption of a blank white photo.
"This fall marks 1 year since I received my informal autism diagnosis. Preceded by a self-diagnosis. Followed by a formal diagnosis,” Wentworth said.
“It was a long, flawed process in need of updating. IMO. I'm a middle-aged man. Not a 5-year-old,” he added.
Wentworth admitted he still did not know enough about autism, but vowed to do his part in "fighting stigma.”
"I don't know enough about autism. (There's a lot to know.) Right now my work looks like evolving my understanding. Re-examining 5 decades of lived experience thru a new lens,” he wrote.
“I don't want to run the risk of suddenly being a loud, ill-informed voice in the room. The #autistic community (this I do know) has historically been talked over. Spoken for. I don't wish to do additional harm. Only to raise my hand, say, ‘I am here. Have been (w/o realizing it).”
Wentworth also thanked those who ”consciously or unconsciously gave [him] that extra bit of grace + space over the years,” and clarified that “this isn't something [he'd] change.”
“No. I get - got - immediately being autistic is central to who I am. To everything I've achieved/articulated,” he wrote.
Wentworth Miller is best known as the star of “Prison Break,” an American drama series for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe.
The series, which originally ran from 2005 to 2009, follows an engineer bent on breaking his brother out of prison after he's sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. — Margaret Claire Layug/LA, GMA News
