About

The author

David Buch is a late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD adult, layered on a long-running background of complex post-traumatic stress, with a measured IQ of 149 that had quietly compensated for all three for forty years. He writes from inside the experience rather than across the desk from it.

His working life has run across software architecture, defence and security work on three continents, and a late call to the bar as a barrister in his fifties. The Quiet Mind began as the notes he kept for himself in the years after diagnosis — 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. Over time the notes settled into chapters, and the chapters into a structure he wished someone had given him when he was younger.

The book is written for two readers at once — the neurodivergent adult on the inside, and the partner, parent, friend, manager, or clinician across the room.

A note on the author’s standing

The author is a layperson writing from lived experience and is not a clinician. The relevant research underpins each chapter, but The Quiet Mind is not a clinical text and is not a substitute for assessment or professional support during a crisis. Where the line matters, the book draws it explicitly.

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