After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. The catch is this: these resources have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have. As Ethan makes his way into the world, McGovern also looks into the hardest question of all: how can we ensure an independent future when we're gone?
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