Harry Potter is terminally ill

Actor Daniel Radcliffe, known worldwide thanks to the role of Harry Potter in numerous films about a young wizard, told reporters that he suffers from a rare impairment of brain functions - dyspraxia. Because of this illness, the 19-year-old actor can not tie his shoelaces himself, RIA Novosti reports.


Dyspraxia is an incurable chronic disease characterized by an inability to properly perform targeted movements. Disease can affect any areas of human development: physical, intellectual or linguistic.

There is a malaise either in problems with coordination, or in speech disorders, or in difficulties with learning, and often in everything little by little. The most common and obvious symptom of dyspraxia is the patient's inability to plan and execute a more or less long sequence of mechanical actions, for example to write or brush his teeth.
Difficulties can cause the most simple mechanical operations - running, climbing the stairs and even jumping. Adult dispatchers can not drive cars and can hardly cope with stressful situations. In the most difficult forms of ailment, patients can not control their own speech and instead of words they say inarticulate sounds.

As Radcliffe himself said, his illness prevents him from tying shoelaces and writing beautifully. Now the actor talks about his illness with a smile, but as a child, it greatly complicated his life - dyspraxia made the boy completely incapable of learning. "At school, I did not have time for one thing," the 19-year-old actor admits.

As the Daily Mail writes, this is what prompted the future movie star to think about the career of the actor. At the age of 9, the boy persuaded his mother to let him go for a role in the film "David Copperfield", based on the novel by Charles Dickens. "I think she let me go there to cheer me up a bit, because then I had a feeling that I was absolutely worthless - I have no talents, and I'm no good at school," said the young man.

But Daniel got a role, and she became for him the first step to world fame, which gave him the saga of Harry Potter, and made the actor the richest teenager in Britain.

Representatives of the actor confirmed the information about the disease of the actor: "Yes, Daniel Radcliffe is suffering from dyspraxia. This is something he never hid. Fortunately, the course of the disease is very mild and in the worst case manifests itself in the inability to tie laces on shoes or in poor handwriting. "

American neuropathologist David Younger, a specialist in dyspraxia, believes that the example of Radcliffe can inspire a lot of people who suffer from this ailment. "I'm a big fan of the whole Harry Potter series and I was surprised to learn that Daniel Radcliffe is suffering from dyspraxia. He obviously suffers in a mild form, but in fact he does not show any signs of illness. And this makes him an example for other people with such a disease. "

By the way, in the last movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Daniel performs his own trick: he flies out of a burning building on a steel cable that is tied to a 30-meter crane.