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This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Leisure is a fundamental right, yet adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism (ID/autism) in Swedish group homes face significant barriers to meaningful participation. Drawing on qualitative interviews with adults and their elderly parents, this study examines the structural constraints shaping their leisure experiences. Using the social relational model of disability and the concept of leisure as a regulatory ideal, the study highlights how lack of individualized support, institutional routines, and austerity-driven service reductions limit leisure opportunities. The increasing influence of neoliberal austerity has led to diminished access to support services, reinforcing structural inequalities and curtailing leisure as a right Parents play a crucial role in enabling leisure through financial, practical, and emotional support, often compensating for gaps in disability services. However, differing perspectives on leisure—where adults prioritize enjoyment and autonomy while parents emphasize health—can create tensions. The findings underscore the need for a reconceptualization of autonomy as relational and calls for greater public investment and inclusive, community-based leisure environments to realize leisure as a meaningful, equitable social good.