About

The author

David Buch was born in Johannesburg in 1967 and has been quietly building unlikely lives ever since. A childhood that began on the Wild Atlantic took him through Ireland, Cape Town, the open ocean, St Helena, Ascension Island, the Caribbean, the Mexican jungle, war-time Israel, apartheid-era South Africa, and eventually Australia, where he took citizenship in the late nineteen-nineties.

His working life has run an equally improbable arc — defence and security work on three continents (including time on the perimeter of Chernobyl and inside classified rooms most people never see the doors to), a long career as a software architect across desktop, mobile, web, and large-database systems, and a late call to the bar as a barrister in his fifties.

In his sixties, he was finally diagnosed with autism and ADHD — explanations he had been needing for forty years. An Atypical Life is the story of what those forty years felt like from the inside.

Other books by the author

• The Quiet Mind — a practical guide to neurodivergence, sensory overload, and recovery, written from the same lived experience that runs through this memoir.
• The Delphi Way — a complete teaching book on Object Pascal, Delphi, FireMonkey, pas2js, and PostgreSQL.

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