The Email Was Fine Until It Made You Uncomfortable

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🖋 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.

Stop Expecting Us to Breathe Like You Do

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🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024
“Therapy Is Not a Cure for Institutional Ableism”

Filed Under: Adjustment Denied · Therapy Blocked · Disability Misunderstood · Verbal Coercion · Community Exclusion · SWANK London Ltd

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Dear Kirsty,

“I’d love to go to therapy but no one will provide adjustments for my disability needs…”

That is not defiance.
That is the documentation of exclusion.

Not a lack of willingness — a lack of access.
Not refusal — obstruction.
A blockade made of unacknowledged needs and verbal tyranny disguised as procedure.

“This limits my ability as well as my kids’ ability to integrate into the community at all.”

And yet, the blame lands on us—
As though exclusion were a matter of attitude, not architecture.

“You keep expecting us to behave like people who don’t have a disability, and we can’t.”

Can’t, not won’t.
That difference defines the law.
Your refusal to grasp it is not a misunderstanding. It is a violation.

“Someone needs to call the mental health practice and help them understand…”

Indeed. Because until they comprehend communication that does not rely on breath and noise,
therapy is not therapy.
It is a performative corridor of pain, lined with clinical ignorance.

You do not get to say I “declined support” when no support was ever offered in an accessible form.

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📍 Untherapised by Refusal, Not Resistance
Polly Chromatic
Advocate of Non-Verbal Integrity
✉ director@swanklondon.com
🌐 www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Adjustments Enforced.