James Medhurst

James Medhurst

As a child, I was very successful in my schoolwork but found it difficult to make friends. I went to Cambridge University but dropped out after a year due to severe depression and spent most of the next year in a therapeutic community, before returning to Cambridge to complete my degree. I first identified myself as autistic in 1999 while I was studying psychology in London but I was not officially diagnosed until 2004 because of a year travelling in Australia and a great deal of NHS bureaucracy. I spent four years working for the BBC as a question writer for the Weakest Link but I am now studying law with the intention of training to be a solicitor. My hobbies include online poker and korfball, and I will be running the London Marathon in 2007. I now have many friends and I am rarely depressed but I remain single.

Articles by James Medhurst

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Can things only get better?

  • 29 May 2007
  • 3 comments

History isn't necessarily a tale of unremitting progress...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

  • 01 May 2007
  • 3 comments

When will Hollywood and the rest of the arts world get the message about catering for disabled people?

Designer labels?

  • 03 April 2007

James Medhurst examines an increasing tendency to seek diagnosis and self-diagnose conditions like autism

Lies, damned lies etc.

  • 20 March 2007
  • 2 comments

How do you measure the progress of disability equality?

Disability Kink

  • 01 March 2007
  • 2 comments

Sex, disability and prostitution

Why I Don’t Want to be Cured

  • 16 February 2007
  • 5 comments

Tempted to wave the magic wand and cure my disability? Well, maybe for a day.

The price of a good read

  • 06 February 2007

How blind and partially-sighted people are discriminated against when it comes to reading

Selling Myself Short

  • 30 January 2007
  • 1 comment

What is the difference between a disabled lawyer and a lawyer with a disability? James ponders the difficulties he and others face when it comes to finding a job

Do mummy and daddy know best?

  • 17 January 2007
  • 2 comments

Ashley X, treatment and whether parents always make the right choices for their children

Discrimination and democracy

  • 02 January 2007

Technology can make elections more accessible for disabled voters

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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Was the government wrong to sack David Nutt?

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