Imagine what it would be like if every decision made about your life were made by someone else: when to get up in the morning, when to go to bed at night, what to eat, how to spend money.
This describes 29 years of Ricky Broussard’s life. From the time he was 10 until the day in 2007 when he was “emancipated,” he lived in an intermediate care facility for individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.