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Daniel Radcliffe Suffers From Brain Disorder
Monday August 18, 2008

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Daniel Radcliffe attends the 62nd Annual Tony Awards on June 15, 2008 at the Rainbow Room in New York.
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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe suffers from a mild form of dyspraxia, a brain disorder that can impair the organization of movement.

The neurological problem — which plagues about 10 percent of people in Britain — impairs a person's normal learning process.

His rep tells London's Daily Telegraph that Radcliffe's "condition is very mild and at worst manifests itself in an inability to tie his shoe laces and bad handwriting."

Radcliffe, 19, joked to Britain's Daily Star: "I sometimes think, 'Why, oh why, has Velcro not taken off?'"

He told the paper that his battle with dyspraxia lead him to pursue acting.

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"I was having a hard time at school in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent," he said.

So his mother allowed him to audition for a BBC version of David Copperfield.

The actor went on to score the part of Potter. He earned an estimated $50 million for the film's last two installments.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the series' sixth movie, was recently pushed back from a November 21 release to July 17, 2009.

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