This paper examines the time and future orientations of adolescents who face challenging life situations due to various disabilities, including visual impairment, chronic disease, and severe learning disabilities. Participants encountered institutional barriers related to their disabilities, which they experienced as “time outs.” Through contrasting cases, we develop a longitudinal typology that connects future orientations with experiences of non-participation from a biographical perspective. Our findings offer insights into the future orientations of young people at increased risk of exclusion, a topic the literature largely overlooks. Based on interviews with young people in Germany during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper explores changes in their perceptions of the future over time. The interviews were conducted and analyzed using the Documentary Method of interpretation to investigate both explicit meaning-making and implicit orientations as part of the habitus. Combined with time-oriented longitudinal research, this relational approach enables a holistic reconstruction of young people's future orientations.