This presentation contributed to conversations about the care economy and what research and policies we need in the pandemic/ recovery period. Some overall considerations of this brief talk focused on how to

i) complicate ideas of "care giver" and "care recipient",

ii) recognize the many forms of care work done by as well as with and for neurodiversity-identified/ neurodivergent people,

iii) identify systemic inadequacies as producing the need for care work such as advocacy and activism, and

iv) examine how restricted care policies (such as Ontario's heavy reliance on Applied Behavioural Analysis in autism policy) can create interpersonal conflicts and divisions between different groups that otherwise face many overlapping interests and pressures.