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Robbie Williams, 50, reveals plans to resit his GCSEs after a lifetime of feeling 'stupid' and leaving school without qualifications amid battle with Dyslexia and ADHD
The singer, 50, who has since been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, explained that learning disabilities were not understood during his youth.
Meanwhile ADHD is a serious, complex neurobiological condition characterised by inattentiveness — such as having a short attention span, being easily distracted, appearing forgetful or losing things — and impulsivity, for instance, being unable to sit still and concentrate. Robbie, who shares Charlie, nine, Coco, five, and three-year-old Beau with wife Ayda Field, said that Teddy had been struggling after being abandoned by a friend following her diagnosis with the learning condition. read and write very slowly confuse the order of letters in words put letters the wrong way round (such as writing 'b' instead of 'd') have poor or inconsistent spelling understand information when told verbally, but have difficulty with information that's written down find it hard to carry out a sequence of directions struggle with planning and organisation But people with dyslexia often have good skills in other areas, such as creative thinking and problem solving.
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