As a person, we all have rights, and these are your rights.
Please read them!
 

You have the RIGHT to be you.
You have the RIGHT to put yourself first.
You have the RIGHT to be safe.
You have the RIGHT to love and be loved.
You have the RIGHT to be treated with respect.
You have the RIGHT to be human ---- not perfect.
You have the RIGHT to be angry and protest
If you are treated unfairly or abusively by anyone.
You have the RIGHT to your own privacy.
You have the RIGHT to have your own opinions,
To express them, and to be taken seriously.
You have the RIGHT to earn and control your own money.
You have the RIGHT to ask questions about anything
That affects your life.
You have the RIGHT to make decisions that affect you.
You have the RIGHT to grow and change,
And this includes changing your mind.
You have the RIGHT to say NO.
You have the RIGHT to make mistakes.
You have the RIGHT not to be responsible for other adults' problems.
You have the RIGHT not to be liked by everyone.
You have the RIGHT to control your own life and change it if you are not happy with it as it is!
 



 
 
 
 

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When I saw this image, I saw myself and how I felt
when I was a victim of abuse

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