The devastated grandad was left reeling after he started seeing his own symptoms unravel on the big screen.

He silently ticked off all the signs of the killer brain disease as The Theory Of Everything, starring Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, 33, played out at his local cinema.

Doctors had previously been baffled as to what was wrong with him.

But when he told them he thought he had the illness, he was sent for more tests – and within two weeks it was confirmed that he had the same debilitating condition as Hawking, 73. REALISATION: Paul ticked off all the symptoms as he watched Eddie Redmayne on the big screen [SWNS]

Paul, 62, from Hagley, Worcs, said of the film: “There’s a scene at the start where Stephen Hawking is running and he suddenly falls over, and I’d had a few falls at work recently.

"I knew for sure after the scene where they list all the symptoms. I just thought: 'I’ve got all of them'."
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