Standards & Whinges Against Negligent Kingdoms (SWANK London Ltd.): Asthma Stigma

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The Email Was Fine Until It Made You Uncomfortable

🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024

“We Came Here to Socialise, Not to Justify Our Lungs”

Filed Under: Email Silencing · Verbal Discrimination · NHS Ignorance · Communication Breakdown · Social Isolation · SWANK London Ltd

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Dear Kirsty,

A forwarded thread. An institutional snub. A decision not to read.

“I can’t speak in person verbally enough to explain all of this…”
“So I am confused as to how to communicate with anyone if no one wants to read my emails.”

That’s the point, isn’t it?
You don’t want communication. You want disappearance.
You want silence dressed as compliance, disability rewritten as inconvenience.

“We came here because we love the people and socialising…”
“…but people here don’t like that we have asthma.”

London promised connection.
Instead, we were handed interrogation—oxygen-policed and socially misread.

And then came the official closure:

“We would be grateful if you do not copy us into any further emails.”

There it is.
The bureaucratic “Shh.”
Not dialogue—dismissal.
Not safeguarding—erasure.

But unlike you, I file it.
Not for revenge. For record.
So the next time you pretend this never happened, the archive will say otherwise.

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📍 Socialising Declined. Documentation Activated.
Polly Chromatic
Founder of Asthmatic Integration & Email-Based Resistance
✉ director@swanklondon.com
🌐 www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Breathings Monitored.

When Breathing Is Treated Like a Social Offence.

🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE MOVED FOR FRIENDSHIP. YOU GAVE US ASTHMA SHAME.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Asthma Discrimination · Social Misreading · Community Hostility · Verbal Disability · British Allergy to Vulnerability · Snobbish Expat Testimony · SWANK Statement on Medical Intolerance

📨 WHAT I WROTE (AND YOU MISREAD):

“We felt isolated in Turks and Caicos and came here because we love the people and socialising…”
“However people here don’t like that we have asthma.”
“It’s like you are all angry at us for having asthma. Period. That’s how we feel.”
(But we feel better now that you are all helping.)

The irony, of course, is that you were never helping.
You were reacting—to our breath, our boldness, our refusal to perform wellness for your comfort.

💨 A BREATHING OFFENCE IN A NATION OF SIDE-EYES

I arrived under the illusion that the UK was a place of civility and inclusion.
Instead, I found a kingdom where asthma is treated like insolence—
and breathlessness is met with bureaucratic punishment.

You whisper behind clipboards.
You raise eyebrows at oxygen monitors.
You blame the disabled for disrupting your illusion of order.

🧠 STILL TELEPATHIC. STILL DISMISSED.

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

And still—
I must explain my lungs.
Justify my sentences.
Rationalise my silence.
To those who claim to support.

📎 CONCLUSION:

We moved for friendship.
We got forms.
We came for inclusion.
We got inspection.
We sought community.
We found clinical disdain.

Polly Chromatic
Expatriate of Hope. Archivist of Breath-Based Rejection.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Breathings Monitored. All Silences Filed.

We Came Here to Breathe — But That Was the Problem: How Asthma Became a Social Offense

⟡ “It’s Like You’re All Angry at Us for Having Asthma” ⟡
A One-Sentence Social Diagnosis That Said More Than a Tribunal Ever Could

Filed: 23 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/EMAIL-09
📎 Download PDF – 2024-11-23_SWANK_Email_Westminster_AsthmaStigma_DisabilityIsolationNote.pdf
Email acknowledging medical and social discrimination toward a family with chronic asthma. Written during a period of safeguarding surveillance and medical strain.

I. What Happened

In this one-paragraph message, Polly Chromatic communicated something that countless forms never ask and no institution admits:

“It’s like you are all angry at us for having asthma. That’s how we feel.”

The email was addressed to social workers, legal advisors, and the family GP. It referenced the family’s prior experience of social exclusion in Turks and Caicos, contrasted with their continued mistreatment in London — despite "help" being offered.

It closed, characteristically, with a polite thank you and a written-only disability declaration.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

The emotional reality of chronic illness stigma across jurisdictions
Institutional hostility misdirected at the existence of a diagnosis
Social marginalisation reframed as policy concern
A legally consistent record of written-only contact preference
Asthma not just as medical condition — but as a trigger for systemic rejection

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because in surveillance culture, illness is tolerated — until it becomes inconvenient.

This is not a crisis email. It is a cultural register of how children and parents with asthma are not merely unsupported — they are framed as the problem itself.

SWANK logged it not for its length, but for its clarity.
Some statements are so quiet they become forensic.

IV. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t oversensitivity.
It was social diagnostics in the voice of lived data.

We do not accept that receiving “support” should require being silent about stigma.
We do not accept that asthma should make a family politically suspicious.
We will document every time someone said “thank you” while also saying, “you made us feel hated.”

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.