Three Problems, One Condition, No Compassion.

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🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE JUST WANT TO BREATHE—NOT BE BLAMED FOR EXISTING.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Medical Disbelief · Respiratory Torture · Social Rejection · Asthma Isolation · Telepathic Clarity · NHS Hostility · School Gaslighting · Chronic Misunderstanding · SWANK Testimonial Evidence File

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📍 To:

Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Fiona Dias-Saxena, Sarah Newman, Laura Savage, Simon O'Meara, Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi
Bcc: Harley Street Mental Health, Nannette Nicholson

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❌ THREE RECURRING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES:

1. Defensive hospital staff who treat symptoms as accusations.

2. Protocol defiance and diagnostic laziness, dressed in lanyards.

3. Gaslighting as standard—“We don’t believe you” as a care plan.

Dr Arjumand repeated—several times—“I don’t believe you,”
while I was visibly, audibly, physiologically struggling to breathe.
My children watched. No one intervened. Again.

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🫁 THE LONGEST SYMPTOM: DISBELIEF

“My whole life, I’ve had to explain my inability to breathe—and still not be believed.”
“From classrooms to clinics, I’ve been called dramatic, then blamed for being right.”
“Now my children are punished for their lungs, and I’m vilified for defending them.”

There is no gas stronger than medical contempt.
And no inhaler for institutional ego.

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👁 HUMANITY REQUIRES MIRRORING—NOT SURVEILLANCE

“Blind people have blind friends. Deaf people have deaf friends.
Even racial communities seek mutual comfort.”
“We want friends who breathe like us. Who understand what it means to survive the air.”
“I breastfed all four of my children to prevent this illness. They got it anyway.
And they are still the only ones who understand me.”

This isn’t martyrdom. It’s physiology.
And you’re not listening. You’re watching with a clipboard.

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💡 OUR REQUESTS (WRITTEN, AS ALWAYS):

• Respect the written access adjustment.

• Treat us without interrogation.

• Stop requiring verbal performance to access care.

• Believe the data, not your mood.

• Stop punishing asthmatic existence.

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📎 ACCESS STATEMENT: STILL VALID. STILL IGNORED.

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult.
I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

This is not ambiguity.
This is refusal to perform your preferred pantomime of health.

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Polly Chromatic
Mother of four. Truth-teller by breath. Refuser of bureaucratic delusion.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Disbelief Cross-Examined.

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