The cookie table would be unveiled in a few hours and our cream horns wouldn’t be on it. My partner in the kitchen, who I’ll call Marie, crisscrossed the dough and the horns looked like varying sized balls of yarn. It was my first major defeat in serving adults with intellectual disabilities.
![Amanda Papa, 33, of Coraopolis, was arrested during a mental health crisis in 2018. “The whole thing could’ve just been stopped, and we [would] probably pay the therapist way less than these officers, these courts, all the staff, all the records — everything." (Photo by Jay Manning/PublicSource)](https://i0.wp.com/www.publicsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_0248.jpg?resize=800%2C600&quality=100&ssl=1)
