Adulthood should not mark the end of opportunity. Turning 22 should be something to celebrate — a new chapter of independence and possibility. But for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, it can feel less like a milestone and more like the finish line. The programs disappear. The friends disappear. The routines, the classrooms, the companions they saw every single day — all of it, gone almost overnight. There's nowhere left to apply everything they've lear