Growing up in Basildon, Essex in a Neurodivergent Family, John has faced the double barriers of being Working Class and Autistic, that has helped inform his most successful work as a Filmmaker.

Diagnosed at 4, John felt liberated with his self acceptance and unmasking of his Autism, compelled to create work informed by his lived experiences as an Autistic adult, spurring him on to community engagement work achieving Disability Advocacy through creative expression.

At present, the strong sense of equity and justice remain a core driving force behind John's perseverance to create a rich medium of work that aims to dispel perpetuated stereotypes around the deaf, disabled and neurodivergent working class lives often troubled by this Intersectionality.