Daniel Radcliffe reveals he suffers from dyspraxia

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed he suffers from dyspraxia. Dyspraxia affects motor skill development and can impair all areas of development and learning, including intellectual, physical and language.  People with dyspraxia have difficulty planning and completing intended fine motor tasks. It is estimated that as many as 6% of all children show some signs of dyspraxia, and in the general population, about 70% of those affected by dyspraxia are male.

Daniel’s dyspraxia is comparatively on the mild end of the spectrum. Daniel admits he ‘was rubbish at everything at school’ and finds tying his shoe laces a bit of a challenge. In an interview to mark his Broadway debut in the play Equus, Daniel talked about the condition and  in reference to the shoe tying, jokingly added: ‘I sometimes think, “Why, oh why, has Velcro not taken off?”’

Daniel revealed in the interview that he wanted to be an actor from the age of five. But he said his mother was against it. When she finally allowed him to audition to play David Copperfield, in a BBC version of the Dickens classic when he was nine, he says it was because she could see he needed a confidence boost. And the rest is history.  Daniel got the part and was a hit, which helped him onto Harry Potter and amassing a personal fortune estimated at $34 million.

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