🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024
I’M NOT AVOIDING THERAPY. YOU’RE AVOIDING ACCESS.
Also Titled: “When Silence Is the Only Accommodation You Won’t Offer.”
Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic, Director, SWANK London Ltd.
Filed Under: Therapy Denial · Institutional Inaccessibility · Verbal Disability · Community Exclusion · Communication Barriers · Mental Health Discrimination · SWANK Correctional Filing
To: Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi, Laura Savage, Simon O'Meara
Bcc: Nannette Nicholson, Curator of Access Denied
💬 THE MESSAGE YOU RECEIVED—AND STILL FAILED TO DECODE:
“I’d love to go to therapy but no one will provide adjustments for my disability needs, and this limits my ability as well as my kids’ ability to integrate into the community at all.”
“It is not our problem. It is your community’s problem.”
“You keep expecting us to behave like people who don’t have a disability—and we can’t.”
“I think someone needs to call the mental health practice and help them understand that I can’t explain everything verbally, since they couldn’t understand when I told them, apparently.”
🧠 TRANSLATED FOR THE VERBALLY DEPENDENT, ACCESS-ILLITERATE PROFESSIONALS:
I requested therapy with adjustments.
You offered verbal performance instead.
I disclosed my communication needs.
You pathologised my precision.
I named exclusion.
You escalated it.
🗣 ACCESS STATEMENT—STILL UNREAD, STILL UNMET:
“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”
You offer assessments with no access.
You offer support with no structure.
And then you call us “noncompliant.”
📎 CLOSING NOTE FOR FUTURE TRIBUNALS:
This isn’t therapy avoidance.
It’s documentation of access denial masquerading as care.
Your system resents the quiet.
Mine will publish it.
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swanklondon.com
✉ director@swanklondon.com
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