Dyspraxia is a term that refers to a specific disorder in the area of motor skill development. People with dyspraxia have difficulty planning and completing intended fine motor tasks. It is estimated that as many as 6% of all children show some signs of dyspraxia, and in the general population, about 70% of those affected by dyspraxia are male.

Dyspraxia can affect different areas of functioning, varying from simple motor tasks such as waving goodbye to more complex tasks like brushing teeth.

He said that it wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be, and that - like I mentioned in the report - he is controlling with the aid of gymnastics, and so forth. Dan jokingly mentioned that after the news broke out about it, he got a lot of text messages from friends saying, 'so, can't tie your shoe laces, eh?' He was really earnest and funny about it, which was fabulous on his part, especially when the media's been tarnishing his reputation over it for days.