<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Living on the Spectrum — Writing</title><description>Plain-language writing about autism: the research, the day-to-day, and the distance between them.</description><link>https://spectrum.divergentfutures.co/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>The energy budget nobody sees</title><link>https://spectrum.divergentfutures.co/writing/spoons-were-always-a-metaphor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://spectrum.divergentfutures.co/writing/spoons-were-always-a-metaphor/</guid><description>Why a day that looks identical from the outside can cost wildly different amounts, and why &quot;you managed it last week&quot; is the least useful sentence in the language.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>day-to-day</category></item></channel></rss>