In his upcoming memoir, Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond<\/em>, the actor revealed that it wasn’t until he was 31 that he was diagnosed, per People.<\/strong><\/p>\n “Even in the midst of Happy Days<\/em>, at the height of my fame and success, I felt embarrassed, inadequate,” wrote Winkler, 77.<\/p>\n “Every Monday at ten o’clock, we would have a table reading of that week’s script, and at every reading I would lose my place, or stumble,” he continued.<\/p>\n “I would leave a word out, a line out. I was constantly failing to give the right cue line, which would then screw up the joke for the person doing the scene with me. Or I would be staring at a word, like “invincible,” and have no idea on earth how to pronounce it or even sound it out,” he shared.<\/p>\n “My brain and I were in different zip codes,” said Winkler. “Meanwhile, the other actors would be waiting, staring at me: it was humiliating and shameful. Everybody in the cast was warm and supportive, but I constantly felt I was letting them down.”<\/p>\n “I had to ask for my scripts really early, so I could read them over and over again- which put extra pressure on the writers, who were already under the gun every week, having to get twenty-four scripts ready in rapid succession. All this at the height of my fame and success, as I was playing the coolest guy in the world,” added the actor.<\/p>\n He added that it wasn’t until his stepson was diagnosed with the learning disorder that he thought he might have the same. Once the actor “found out that I had something with a name, I was so fucking angry.”<\/p>\n “All the misery I’d gone through had been for nothing,” said Winkler. “All the yelling, all the humiliation, all the screaming arguments in my house as I was growing up \u2013 for nothing\u2026 It was genetic! It wasn’t a way I decided to be! And then I went from feeling this massive anger to fighting through it.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/images.toofab.com\/image\/1d\/5by4\/2023\/05\/09\/1df180671c7a4a32bf64ba0f4b2aab99_xs.jpg\")
<\/p>\n Henry Winkler Details Debilitating 'Psychic Pain' After Happy Days Ended <\/h4>\n
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