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James Christie has a vampire for a flatmate and corresponds with a Hollywood star. Born in 1964, he graduated from Crewe & Alsager College of Higher Education with a degree in creative writing as well as College Colours "in recognition of outstanding service to the student body and the college community". After travelling around Australia for a year, he took a postgraduate diploma in library and information studies at Thames Valley University in 1992, catalogued the private library collection of a stately home and worked as a law librarian in Glasgow .

He was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 2002 and shortly thereafter began to take a focused interest in Drusilla the vampire, a character in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He wrote a trilogy of fan-fiction stories (Drusilla’s Roses, Drusilla’s Redemption and Drusilla Revenant) which further developed the character of Drusilla, sent them to the actress Juliet Landau (who portrayed Drusilla in Buffy) and impressed her so much they commenced an email correspondence.

In 2010, James took a Buffy-themed Greyhound bus trip across America with the support of the National Autistic Society Scotland in order to meet his dear Miss Landau. The story of this, together with descriptions of his difficulties living as an autistic adult in a neuro-typical world, was published by Chaplin Books in 2012.

Blog Entries by James Christie

Dru, Dru, It's Always Been You, Dru...

(0) Comments | Posted 23 May 2013 | (00:43)

Ten years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer's last episode...

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun!

During its seven-year run (1997-2003) Buffy the Vampire Slayer won three Emmys and was listed tenth on Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Shows of All Time, second on Empire's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All...

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Secrets of the Buffyverse - The Eureka Moment

(0) Comments | Posted 16 May 2013 | (22:49)

Clara Oswald's secret is shortly due to be revealed on Doctor Who (unless America blurts it out before Saturday night) and we've just found out the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch's character in Star Trek - Into Darkness.

Truly, it seems geeks, nerds and Aspergers rule the entertainment world. In The...

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How Shall I Love Thee, O Sheldon?

(4) Comments | Posted 3 April 2013 | (23:43)

I was thinking about roles in life for people with autism the other day, and my thoughts turned to The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Lee Cooper.

And I realized a simple thing.

Sheldon is The Man!

More precisely, he's the alpha male of the new age. The Head Honcho, the...

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(Lette) Kathy Come Home

(6) Comments | Posted 24 March 2013 | (20:10)

Kathy Lette's new novel, The Boy Who Fell To Earth, which will be coming out shortly in paperback, deals with the trials and tribulations of a harassed thirtysomething mother coping with her autistic son. Kathy herself has written an entertaining, insightful article about the trials and tribulations of...

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Just the Other Day, met Joss Whedon Along the Way...

(0) Comments | Posted 28 February 2013 | (23:45)

Sometimes truth really is strange than fiction, and although I virtually cannot believe what I'm writing, a simple decision whether or not to answer a "lost" email nearly four years ago made one possible future real and has led to a situation in which I find myself with a vampire...

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Five Values, Six Goals and Seven Strategic Priorities Mean as Much as a Partridge in a Pear Tree!

(0) Comments | Posted 24 January 2013 | (21:58)

I went to a meeting about autism the other day, its aim basically to improve services for people with autism. It was a frustrating and demoralizing experience, sitting with well-meaning people who wanted to bring live-wires to such meetings but who then made the electricity that sparkled along those selfsame...

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So Guns Don't Kill People, Do They?

(4) Comments | Posted 15 December 2012 | (13:00)

I wasn't in Newtown, Connecticut last night, but I was in Dunblane, and as soon as BBC Scotland correspondent Colin Blane heard of the attack which killed 27, including 20 scholchildren, he said:

"When I heard about the shootings in the elementary school in Connecticut, I thought immediately of Dunblane."...

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My Flatmate, the Vampire

(3) Comments | Posted 29 November 2012 | (18:17)

The final bell has tolled for the Twilight saga with Breaking Dawn Part 2, and Bell and Eddie will look no more into each other's red-tinged eyes.

Burning glances mean little to the average Asperger, too many modern-day films (Argo and Silver Linings honourably excepted) seem to have sacrificed plot...

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The Black Man, the Asperger, the NHS and its Bigots...

(2) Comments | Posted 19 November 2012 | (08:51)

In case you think the atrocious treatment of learning-disabled patients at Winterbourne View care home was a one-off blip, or if you think that organisations today would never cover up Jimmy Savile's alleged activities the way they did thirty or forty years ago...

In 2008, the Race Equality Services Review,...

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Drunk? Demonic? Deranged? Be a Writer!

(4) Comments | Posted 7 November 2012 | (23:58)

A BBC news article has confirmed what so many might suspect: writers are nuts, or to put it more politely, "creativity is part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible ... Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression and substance abuse, the Swedish...

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