1. I have the right to have my pain believed by health professionals, family, friends and others around me.
2. I have the right to have my pain controlled, no matter what its cause or how severe it might be.
3. I have the right to be treated with respect at all times.
4. I have the right not be treated as a drug user or abuser when I need medication for my pain.
5. I have the right to have pain resulting from treatments and procedures prevented, or at the very least, minimised.
6. I have the right to receive service from personnel employed at shops, banks, post offices, and so forth.
7. I have the right to not be treated as though I am mentally incompetent, simply because I am physically handicapped.
8. I have the right not be 'gawked' at.
9. I have the right to not be treated as an object of pity or disgust.
10. I have the right to not have people jump over my wheelchair in their haste to get passed or ahead of me, and thus endanger me.
11. I have the right to having my personal 'space' respected.
12. I have the right not to be touched by well-meaning strangers.
13. I have the right not to be treated as some pathetic weakling.
14. I have the right to vote in privacy - not publicly because there is no wheelchair access.
15. I have the right to expect wheelchair access in any public place.
16. I have the right to an opinion of which type of treatment I will submit to, without having people, such as WorkCover representatives, say I have "refused treatment" or I have "given up".
17. I have the right to decide what medication I take and what side effects I choose not to live with.
18. I have the right to choose my own doctors and RSD specialists and change if I don't feel comfortable with them.
19. I have the right to question the treatment doctors/specialists offer for my condition and weigh up the positive and negative aspects of such treatment.
20. I have the right (and responsibility) to learn all I can about RSD.
