ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of research about the opportunities for exercising Active Citizenship among young adults with disabilities in Norway. It presents a model for more dynamic conceptualisation of the transitions to Active Citizenship. The chapter focuses on the capability approach to examine the dynamics and analyses life-course interviews empirically with disabled youth in Norway conducted in 2014. A general finding from the interviews with persons with psychosocial disabilities was the challenge of exercising autonomy and living 'the life they had reason to value'. The chapter compares the lived experiences of youth with mobility, visual, intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in their efforts to enter the labour market in Norway. For youth with psychosocial disabilities, the inclination to view their mental health problem as temporary had the effect that they to larger extent participated in the self-help organisation as a transition stage.
