Charley Boorman is an actor, adventurer and a writer. He is also dyslexic.
He says it was his father, the film director John Boorman, who spotted the signs - not his teachers, who wrote him off.
"At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn't really have a clue about what it was, so I had to spend a lot of my time trying to explain to teachers what dyslexia meant."
Frustrated in class, he played the clown he says.
"I found I was being pushed to one side and I was being ear-marked as being thick, which is a very damaging thing to be told as a young kid," he says, laughing.
"(They said) you're thick and you'll not amount to much."
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