What Celebrities Have Learning Disabilities

Reviewed by Mary McLaughlin, Special Didactics Teacher; Thousand.S. SpEd

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Y'all'd be surprised how many of your favorite celebrities accept struggled with basic learning skills growing upwards. [The image above illustrates how a dyslexic sees words: blurry and incomprehensible]. And notwithstanding despite the ridicule they often suffered in school, in social situations, and sometimes at dwelling, they had the inner forcefulness to persevere. What follows is a list of celebrities who struggled with various disability bug before hitting it big. Actors, businessmen, sports heroes, they tin can and should serve as inspiration to us all.

Keira Knightley (Dyslexia)

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Diagnosed with dyslexia at age half dozen, Pirates of the Caribbean area star Keira Knightley has said her struggles with reading at an early age simply made her tougher. Knightley's mother told her that she could merely act if she read every day during the holidays and kept her grades up. With her dream of acting now on the line she wouldn't be stopped, and in her ain words, "I drove myself into the ground trying to get over dyslexia and when I finished school I had the top grades." Proving that perseverance is key.

Orlando Blossom (Dyslexia)

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All-time known for his part as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean, Bloom was diagnosed with dyslexia at age seven. Despite his mother's best efforts in getting him to read more, Flower'due south struggles left him looking for a creative outlet, so he turned to the stage. He somewhen mastered reading out loud in drama schoolhouse, and fifty-fifty turned his dyslexia to his advantage. "The gift of dyslexia was that I learned everything forrad and backward, within out, so I was fully prepared," he said. "I had to learn everything so that I wouldn't have stage fearfulness or the lines wouldn't fall out of my mind."

Michael Phelps (ADHD)

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Growing upwardly, champion swimmer Michael Phelps was continually criticized by teachers for his inability to sit still, and was formally diagnosed with ADHD when he was in fifth form. Subsequently being on Ritalin for over two years, Phelps chose to stop using the drug and instead used swimming to help him detect focus. His option clearly paid off, as he concluded his Olympic career as the virtually highly decorated Olympian of all time, boasting 22 medals (xviii of them being gold).

Daniel Radcliffe (Dyspraxia)

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Nigh notable for his role as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe has lived with a mild case of dyspraxia for his unabridged life. Dyspraxia is a common neurological disorder that affects motor skill development, meaning that at 25 years quondam and the star of one of the largest franchises in flick history, Radcliffe still has trouble tying his shoelaces. In an interview regarding his Broadway debut, he once jokingly stated 'I sometimes remember, Why, oh why, has Velcro not taken off?'

Whoopi Goldberg (Dyslexia)

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Extra, author, and producer Whoopi Goldberg was really called "impaired" while growing up due to her dyslexia. "I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb.  My mother told me that," she said in a 2004 interview. With leading roles in movies like Sis Act, The Color Purple, and Jumping Jack Flash, and being one of the only x people to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award; she has certainly proven her critics wrong.

Steven Spielberg (Dyslexia)

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Indiana Jones, E.T., Saving Private Ryan, and Jurassic Park are merely a few of the movies that legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg is responsible for. Despite only being diagnosed with dyslexia at historic period threescore, Spielberg struggled with it his entire life. He learned to read two years after all of his classmates and was bullied then much that he dreaded going to school. He offers this advice to students and young adults with learning disabilities, "Y'all are not solitary, and while you will take dyslexia for the rest of your life, you can sprint between the raindrops to get where y'all desire to go. It will not agree you back."

Justin Timberlake (Add together and OCD)

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In a 2008 interview with Collider.com, singer, songwriter, and actor Justin Timberlake revealed that he has both Attention Deficit Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and is quoted as saying "I have OCD mixed with Add together. You endeavor living with that." His OCD manifests in the demand to have things line up correctly, and merely allowing certain foods in his refrigerator. Despite contesting his obsessive thoughts, Timberlake has had an incredibly successful career in the entertainment industry, even winning nine Grammy Awards and four Emmy Awards.

Christopher Knight (ADHD)

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Known all-time for playing Peter on the original Brady Agglomeration television series, Christopher Knight had problems focusing and speaking slowly when he was younger, ADHD symptoms that went undiagnosed until 1997. Since his diagnosis at age 39, Knight has sought treatment for his status and served as a spokesperson for the National Consumer League'due south Advert/Hd entrada.

Jamie Oliver (Dyslexia)

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Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver has authored over twenty cookbooks, and currently holds the title of globe's richest chef, with a internet worth of over $230 one thousand thousand. With that in mind, it might surprise you to learn that he merely finished reading his get-go book in 2013. He was quoted every bit saying "I've never read a book in my life, which I know sounds incredibly ignorant only I'm dyslexic and I get bored easily." What did he choose as his first volume to stop? Catching Fire, the sequel to the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Ty Pennington (ADHD)

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Ty Pennington is, in his own words, "about every bit ADHD equally you can get." The quondam host of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Habitation Edition had a great deal of trouble in school. "I mean, I was and so out of control that I spent almost of the time in the hallway or in detention," he said. Pennington was formally diagnosed with Attending Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as an undergrad, and taking the prescribed medication was followed by an immediate upturn in his grades, to the point where he was getting straight A's.

Keanu Reeves (Dyslexia)

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Star of The Matrix trilogy, Point Break, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and most recently John Wick, Keanu Reeves' dyslexia caused him to struggle in school. In an interview with Handbag Magazine he said, "Because I had trouble reading, I wasn't a practiced student … I didn't finish high school. I did a lot of pretending as a kid. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't really feel similar I fit in." His souvenir for pretending has served him well in his acting career, which is still going stiff after 30 years.

Charles Schwab (Dyslexia)

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Due to his struggle with undiagnosed dyslexia, Charles Schwab bluffed his mode through his early years of schooling by reading Classic Comic Book versions of books like Ivanhoe and A Tale of Two Cities. While attention Stanford University, Schwab was initially floundering, failing both Freshman English and French, "To sit down down with a blank piece of paper and write was the most traumatic thing that had ever faced me in life," he admitted. At 77 years old, Man of affairs and investor Charles Schwab has a net worth in excess of $5.1 billion, and however still finds reading and writing ho-hum.

Paul Orfalea (Dyslexia and ADHD)

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Paul Orfalea struggled the unabridged way through school due to being unable to focus read properly, which fifty-fifty lead to his expulsion from four of the eight schools he attended. In the stop, Orfalea graduated high school with a 1.2 GPA and went on to attend the University of Southern California. While notwithstanding only getting C's and D's in college, he was working role time on a concern venture he called Kinko'southward. In an interview, he attributed his success in part to his conditions, "My learning disability gave me certain advantages, considering I was able to live in the moment and capitalize on the opportunities I spotted,"

Jay Leno (Dyslexia)

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Jay Leno is a human being of many talents; he is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and former television host of NBC'south The Tonight Show. Leno's dyslexia has led him to go a firm believer in low self-esteem, in that "If you don't call up you're the smartest person in the room and you think you're going to accept to work a footling harder, and put a little more time into it to get what everybody else does, yous tin actually do quite well.  And that'south been my approach." His approach to dyslexia has clearly paid off.

Vince Vaughn (ADD and Dyslexia)

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Notable for his roles in movies like Dodgeball, The Intermission Up, and Nuptials Crashers, Vince Vaughn has a history of making people laugh. As a child Vaughn struggled to read, and consequently ceased caring about schoolwork in order to avoid embarrassment. When he was diagnosed with Add and dyslexia and prescribed medication for them, his male parent refused that class of handling. Vaughn credits his acting career, "But when yous have these setbacks, yous develop a actually good work ethic, because you have to try harder."

Richard Engel (Dyslexia)

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Journalist, writer, NBC News' master foreign correspondent, and recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, Richard Engel struggled through school due to his Dyslexia. While working harder to achieve his goals wasn't an upshot, the act of being coddled and meeting with specialists caused his self-confidence to plummet. His confidence problems caused him to stick to the sidelines for a time, before attending a wilderness survival campsite at age 13 restored his confidence. "Confidence is everything," according to Engel. "In one case yous starting time having success, y'all build on success." Engel went on to graduate from Stanford, and despite being told that he would never learn another linguistic communication is now good in French, Castilian, and four dialects of Arabic.

Henry Winkler (Dyslexia)

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All-time known as Arthur Fonzarelli, aka "The Fonz," on the archetype television receiver evidence Happy Days, Henry Winkler didn't read a book until he was 31 years quondam. Due to his dyslexia Winkler struggled equally a child, both with reading and the criticism that was heaped upon him for his failure, "They thought I was lazy. I was called lazy. I was chosen stupid. I was told I was not living up to my potential. And all the time inside I'm thinking, I don't think I'm stupid. I don't want to be stupid. I'm trying as difficult equally I can. I really am." Since his diagnosis at historic period 31, Winkler has become a champion for those suffering from dyslexia, and has fifty-fifty authored a series of books most a child with dyslexia that is based upon his own experiences with the disorder, Hank Zipzer: The World'due south Greatest Underachiever.

Karina Smirnoff (ADHD)

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Throughout her life, Karina Smirnoff has struggled with inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, all symptoms of ADHD. The Dancing With The Stars performer was diagnosed when a friend noticed her symptoms and pointed out how they were affecting her life, at which point she sought a formal diagnoses and treatment. Karina'south parents tried to provide her with creative outlets that would concur her involvement, activities like figure skating, ballet, gymnastics, and playing the piano. When speaking about how ADHD has impacted her life, she said, "After speaking with my physician and getting diagnosed with ADHD, I realized that having tools — such as medication and organizational strategies — would help manage my symptoms."

Tim Tebow (Dyslexia)

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Sometime University of Florida star football role player Tim Tebow was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, a condition that both his male parent and brother suffer from. In order to reach where he has, Tebow has had to detect alternate methods of learning things that others grasp in seconds. "It has to do with finding out how you learn, and you really get it done rapidly," Tebow said. "I'1000 non somebody that opens a playbook and but turns and reads and reads. That doesn't practice it for me." Instead, the former All American quarterback makes flashcards and memorizes them over time, peculiarly when traveling.

Anderson Cooper (Dyslexia)

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Well-known announcer and CNN TV personality, Anderson Cooper has struggled with a mild case of dyslexia from a very early age. Cooper's family placed heavy importance on reading and hired a special reading instructor in society to help Anderson. Cooper persevered by finding books that he was incredibly passionate virtually, including Helen Keller's biography and Graham Greene'southward novel "The Quiet American." While speaking at the National Center for Learning Disability's annual tiffin in 2010 he said "Luckily I went to a school that caught the problem very quickly and was able to figure out the trouble and diagnose information technology, and luckily I had admission to people who could really help"

Howie Mandel (ADHD and OCD)

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Histrion, comedian, and game-evidence host, Howie Mandel has coped with ADHD and OCD his unabridged life, just simply consciously recognized what he had in his 40s. Equally a child Howie was unmanageable both at home and at school, and though he forewent earning a high school diploma he has gone on to have a long and fruitful career in the entertainment manufacture, where he has incorporated his conditions into his comedy and how he performed on Bargain or No Deal. In an interview discussion of his ADHD he said, "Bargain or No Deal works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show upward, meet the contestants, and motion around the set. I'thou non stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions."

Cher (Dyslexia)

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Cher is well known for both her singing and acting career, though not many people are aware she has had bug with dyslexia her unabridged life. As her dyslexia went undiagnosed in school, her teachers simply thought that she wasn't trying, she said in an interview "When I was in schoolhouse, it was really difficult. About everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living upwards to my potential." She likewise admitted that dyslexia had made it more difficult to read movie scripts, but that though it slowed her down she refused to let it end her.

Richard Branson (Dyslexia)

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Entrepreneur, billionaire, and "The only person in the world to have built viii billion-dollar companies from scratch in eight dissimilar countries." Richard Branson is a model for success, he is also dyslexic. Different many, who consider dyslexia a expletive, Branson calls it his "greatest forcefulness." Growing up in a time when dyslexia was largely misunderstood, Branson's teachers only labeled him as lazy or "not very clever." After starting up a successful culling newspaper in loftier school, he was confronted by his headmaster who said, "Congratulations, Branson. I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire." Looking back on the incident Branson said "That was quite a startling prediction, only in some respects he was right on both counts!"


David Neeleman (Add together)

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JetBlue CEO David Neeleman has turned his ADHD to his advantage, using information technology to assist him focus on the things that he is passionate near. In an interview with Attitudemag, Neeleman said ""If someone told me yous could be normal or y'all could continue to have your Add, I would accept ADD." In this spirit, Neeleman refuses to take medication to treat the condition, "I'm agape of taking drugs in one case, bravado a circuit, and and so being like the rest of y'all." Instead of assuasive his ADD to derail his thoughts, he uses the condition to find more streamlined methods of accomplishing his tasks.

Tommy Hilfiger (Dyslexia)

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While his name and wearable brand are known across the earth, non many people are aware that fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger has struggled with dyslexia for his entire life. As a child he was perceived as stupid due to his problems reading, and in the stop he decided to forgo attending college. Hilfiger attributes much of his success equally a wear designer to his lack of formal training, which he claims allows him to see things in a way that other designers wouldn't.

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