GRAFTON, Wis. — Inside a building that resembles a school in Grafton, a local charity is connecting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

For six decades, Portal Inc. has been working to give neurodivergent people a place and community to call home with day services and job training.

RJ Bottalla runs one of the organization's more unique programs.

As recreation manager at Portal Inc., he is responsible for planning events across the county for his adult recreation group to take part in.

"This program is centered on how we get people to have fun," Bottalla said. "How can we adapt the neurotypical world to make people who might think a different way, who see the world a different way, find belonging in themselves?"

Bottalla spends his days organizing events for this

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