Notable Dyspraxics
Living people who have publicly stated they have been diagnosed with dyspraxia include actor Daniel Radcliffe, photographer David Bailey, Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine, and actress Hannah McDonnell.
Writers suspected to have had the condition include Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, G.K. Chesterton, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac and George Orwell.
Helen Burns, a character from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, is alleged to have been based on the author's dyspraxic elder sister Maria Bronte.
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