Wentworth Miller has revealed that he has autism.
The “Prison Break” star posted a blank white square on Instagram Tuesday, alongside a lengthy caption explaining that he received a formal diagnosis of autism a year ago.
Calling it “a long, flawed process in need of updating,” Miller, 49, admitted that the news was “a shock but not a surprise.”
The Princeton grad wrote that he will now be “re-examining 5 decades of lived experience thru a new lens.”
“Oh – this isn’t something I’d change,” he continued. “No. I get – got – immediately [that] being autistic is central to who I am. To everything I’ve achieved/articulated.
“Oh – I also want to say to the many (many) people who consciously or unconsciously gave me that extra bit of grace + space over the years, allowed me to move thru the world in a way that made sense to me whether or not it made sense to them… thank you.
“And to those who made a different choice… well. People will reveal themselves. Another gift.”
Miller, who has been out since 2013, has been open about his mental health struggles and how he tried to kill himself as a teenager.
“Growing up I was a target,” he said during a speech during a Human Rights Campaign Gala in 2013. “Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test and there were a thousand ways to fail. A thousand ways to portray yourself to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted or what was normal.”
The pressure was such that he tried killing himself several times.
“I waited until my family went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills,” he said. “I don’t remember what happened over the next couple of days, but I’m pretty sure come Monday morning I was on the bus back to school pretending everything was fine.”