{"id":479,"date":"2025-09-04T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:45:12","slug":"tom-holland-on-adhd-dyslexia-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland on ADHD, Dyslexia Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tom_holland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tom Holland<\/a>\u2019s spidey senses aren\u2019t always tingling perfectly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/spider_man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/spider_man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spider-Man<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/spider_man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> star<\/a> recently detailed how his diagnoses with dyslexia and Attention-Deficit\/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can sometimes inhibit his craft, and how he overcomes it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have ADHD and I&#8217;m dyslexic, and I find sometimes when someone gives me a blank canvas that it can be slightly intimidating,\u201d Tom told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/spider-man-star-tom-holland-looks-unrecognizable-in-new-lego-short-film-he-takes-a-break-from-filming-brand-new-day-to-tell-ign-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">IGN<\/a> in an interview published Sept. 1. \u201cSometimes you are met with those challenges when developing a character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Cherry actor noted that he pursues evoking his inner child through \u201cplay\u201d in order to get himself prepared for any given part.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny way that you can, as a young person or as an adult, interact with something that forces you to be creative and forces you to think outside the box and make changes,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think that the more we do that sort of stuff, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Holland\u2019s spidey senses aren\u2019t always tingling perfectly.\u00a0 After all, the Spider-Man star recently detailed how his diagnoses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}