June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month! If you are LGBTQ+, you deserve to be treated with respect by everyone in your life -- including the people who support you. That’s why we made a new guide for LGBTQ+ autistic people called Rights and Respect! [[link removed]] This guide will help you figure out what to do if a support worker doesn’t respect you and your rights. This guide answer questions like:

* What are my legal rights?

* Why is fighting for our rights important?

* What does it look like when a support worker respects me?

* What can I do if my support worker isn’t respecting me?

And more!

The toolkit is available in two versions:

Our Easy Read edition. The Easy Read version uses pictures along with large text, and has more white space. Click here to download the Easy Read version of “Rights and Respect.” [[link removed]]

A Plain Language version without accompanying graphics. Click here to download the Plain Language version of “Rights and Respect.” [[link removed]]

This is the second toolkit in our Proud and Supported series. You can check out the first, Definitions and Beyond, here! [[link removed]]

It can be hard when someone doesn’t respect you. Now more than ever, we all need to keep fighting for our rights. We hope you’ll use this toolkit and share it widely so we can speak up and talk about discrimination when it happens. Let’s fight for our right to respect!


Autistic Self Advocacy Network
PO Box 66122
Washington, DC 20035
United States
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