🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE DON’T ARGUE. WE BREATHE.
Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Verbal Hostility · Hospital Gaslighting · Disability Disrespect · Child Medical Neglect · A&E Verbalism · Respiratory Mismanagement · SWANK Defence of Breath
To:
Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Fiona Dias-Saxena, Sarah Newman, Laura Savage, Simon O’Meara, Gideon Mpalanyi
Bcc: Nannette Nicholson, Harley Street Mental Health
📣 WHAT I SAID (NOT THAT THEY LISTENED):
“I don’t appreciate the way they treat us when we go to the hospital unable to breathe—when we can’t defend ourselves verbally.”
“All they want to do is argue.”
“We don’t have time or respiratory capacity to do that.”
The last thing a mother should need in the A&E is rhetorical stamina.
Yet this system insists on performance—over pulse, posture, or protocol.
👶🏽 ON BEHALF OF MY DAUGHTER:
“It’s very straightforward. All they needed to do was check Honor.”
“But they wanted to argue about it instead.”
This isn’t a failure to understand.
It’s a refusal to accommodate—deliberate, rehearsed, and increasingly cruel.
🌀 SYSTEMIC ABUSE, THEN BLAME:
“After they abuse us, everyone blames me.”
“And when my kids get older, they will be treated the same way unless it changes now.”
You’ve confused safeguarding with antagonism.
And weaponised authority against the breathless.
🧠 VERBAL EFFORT IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT YOUR ENTITLEMENT:
“It’s exhausting for us to do simple things like talk.”
“Apparently other people can talk more easily because they waste it on arguing.”
“We only talk when it’s meaningful.”
We do not owe you discourse.
We owe our lungs oxygen, not defence.
📎 ACCESS STATEMENT (ETERNALLY NEEDED):
“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”
Verbalism is not care. It is coercion.
And we document every syllable you try to extract unlawfully.
Polly Chromatic
Archiving the violence of disbelief. Refusing to breathe for your benefit.
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