David Buch
Australian author. Two entirely separate bodies of work — a teaching text on Object Pascal software development, and books about neurodivergence — published under one imprint.
The software work
Decades of building production Object Pascal systems and the long discipline of inheriting other people’s code — and writing it so the next person inherits something they can actually maintain. The Delphi Way is the book he needed himself: a single end-to-end teaching text that goes from a first program through to a production system one team can run for a decade. This is a technical book for developers; it has nothing to do with the other two.
The neurodivergence work
The Quiet Mind draws on a late diagnosis of autism and ADHD layered over complex post-traumatic stress, and the long quiet adaptation that came before language for the experience existed. It is written from inside the experience, with research underpinning each chapter, but the tone stays practical — what to do when overload begins, how to communicate when language has left, what to remove from a room to make it survivable, how to talk to oneself without contempt. An Atypical Life, forthcoming, is the memoir that sits behind it.
The imprint
All three books are published under Anatypical Life, David’s independent publishing imprint. The imprint is a publishing vehicle — not a thematic grouping. The imprint name is a deliberate inversion: not atypical, with its clinical implication of deviation from a norm, but Anatypical — describing a life that does not derive its shape from any prescribed type at all.
How to reach him
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