Supreme Court Nominee Gorsuch and Autism

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RightWingWatch: Trump Nominates Conservative Ideologue Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court

How come I didn't have any rights or recourse at all in school? Is this new? They completely abandoned me and I will never forgive them.

If Gorsuch is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, he will only become one of four conservative justices to counter the four liberal justices. Remember: Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy remains the deciding factor. He is the justice who gave the United States its landmark marriage-equality opinion. As such, I doubt that he would go too far in changing the improvements gained by disabled Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheff_v._O%27Neill
You may be interested in reading about what happened in Connecticut concerning unequal education in public schools.

Judge Gorsuch has written some terrible opinions when it comes to the education of the disabled.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jan 2017 to clean up the mess he made on the 10th circuit. A student in the area covered by Gorsiuch's 10th circuit court appealed his terrible decision and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.

Instead of following the Supreme Court's ruling that the educational benefit mandated by IDEA to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) be "meaningful"; Gorsuch penned the following ruling while serving on the 10th circuit:
"A school district is not required to provide every service that would benefit a student if it has found a formula that can reasonably be expected to generate SOME PROGRESS (notice how he replaced MEANINGFUL with SOME PROGRESS) on that student's IEP goals.... the educational benefit mandated by IDEA must MERELY be "more than de minimis" ("de minimus" means "too trivial or minor to merit consideration").

In other words, as long as the IEP is helping the disabled student to progress in any significant way in just one area; then the school has done their job. There's no need to follow best practice or to have an IEP that is excellent...or fair...just one that could lead to some level of progress in just one area.

The Supreme Court will probably (let's hope) end up overturning Gorsuch's opinion and say an IEP needs to be "aimed at significant educational progress in light of the child’s circumstances" (language used in the IDEA).

But Gorsuch's rulings have made it clear that if it was up to him all a school district would need to put in place is an IEP that would be minimally advantageous for the student rather than significantly advantageous.

To find the opinion where Gorsuch lowered the bar for IEPs from being significant advantageous to merely minimally advantageous google: Thompson R2-J School v. LUKE P

For a summary of the arguments heard before SCOTUS in January 2017 google: argument-analysis-justices-grapple-proper-standard-measuring-educational-benefits-children-disabilities

For a write up of the pending case before SCOTUS google:
"Educational Benefit: “Merely More Than De Minimis” or “Meaningful”?

The decision of SCOTUS is expected by Summer.

Traditional roles will also be the new normal for people with disabilities. Perhaps they will bring back Ugly Laws.

Just learned that our lives may be deemed hopeless, but they are not our own.

If need be put on your language censors cause, I might wind up being colorful in language. Anyways, I could care less about if someone idiot from stupidville thinks autistic people are without help and should be simply disregarded, That is not merely insulting be outrageous and demoralizing. All autistic people can do well if not go beyond measured statistics if there are a wide variety of resources available to them. However, in my time Asperger Syndrome simply did not exist whereby, I literally fell through the cracks of the entire educational system from 1st-12th grade and even into my 1st semester of College which, I never completed.
Whatever it takes I'll try to reduce whatever measures he tries to incorporate so, my niece whom might be autistic will not be fleeced.