Daryl Hannah Reveals Struggle with Autism

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Daryl Hannah Reveals Struggle with Autism
Sep 27, 2013 10:09 AM ET
by Sadie Gennis

Daryl Hannah opened up about her lifelong struggle with autism in the new issue of People, E! News reports.

The actress revealed she was diagnosed as a child and suffered from "debilitating shyness." "I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure," Hannah reflected.

While doctors wanted her institutionalized, her mother refused and eventually let her more to Los Angeles at 17. There Hannah became a successful actress, though she noted, "I've never been comfortable being the center of attention. It's always freaked me out."

Even after Hannah found her place in Hollywood, she said she was still "terrified" to tell people, especially producers, about her autism. Now, Hannah is able to manage her symptoms and focuses her energy on environmental activism.

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1. Daryl Hannah Says Autism Made Her 'Terrified' Of Fame, Is The Reason She Left Hollywood

http://www.eonline.com/videos/212277/daryl-hannah-s-struggle-with-autism

Daryl Hannah Says Autism Made Her 'Terrified' Of Fame, Is The Reason She Left Hollywood

Posted: 09/27/2013 10:03 am EDT | Updated: 09/27/2013 5:53 pm EDT

If you feel like you haven't seen the beautiful Daryl Hannah much since "Kill Bill," you're about right. The 52-year-old and former A-list star has intentionally fallen off the grid. In an interview with People magazine, Hannah explains her autism diagnosis as a child led to a debilitating fear of fame as an adult, which is the cause of her relative absence from the silver screen.

According to People, Hannah was diagnosed at a time when the disorder was not widely understood and doctors recommended she be medicated and institutionalized. Isolated from her peers, she found solace in old movies and her fondness for acting begun. The way she saw it, movies were an escape from the real world. At 17, she moved to L.A.

But being a towering blonde beauty was not a blessing for her, as she refused to do talk shows or attend her own movie premieres. "Not because I was above it," she tells People, "but because I was terrified."

Today, she says, she still works but is "definitely not being offered the greatest roles in the world." Her true love is her environmental work -- she's been arrested multiple times for her activism (In 2012, after protesting and trying to halt the construction of an oil pipeline designed to bring crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast). She also leads an eco-friendly lifestyle, pumps well water and relies on solar power at home.

Her friend, interviewed in People, says that when Hannah "feels passionate about something, she loses all her fears."

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2. Maybe the reason John Kennedy's mother put the kabosh on their relationship..n/t

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3. k&r thanks for posting. nm

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4. Wow, I didn't know that about her.