Standards & Whinges Against Negligent Kingdoms (SWANK London Ltd.): asthma trauma

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When I Say I Can’t Breathe, I Don’t Mean Emotionally.

🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
YOU KEEP TREATING ASTHMA AS AN ATTITUDE. IT’S A CONDITION.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Respiratory Prejudice · Paediatric Neglect · Hospital Disbelief · School Blame Loops · Disability Disregard · Access Failure · Asthma Stigma · SWANK Respiratory Defence Files

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

🧬 THREE SIMPLE FAILURES (THAT DESTROY BREATH AND DIGNITY):

Hospital staff who argue instead of assess
Inaccurate measurements used as emotional cudgels
Lifelong disbelief masquerading as protocol

You’ve mistaken medical emergency for personality flaw.
Our lungs don’t require your opinion—just air.

💬 A BREATHLESS TESTIMONY:

“Dr Arjumand asked for the history and then told me: I don’t believe you.”
“She said it several times while I was struggling to breathe.”
“Before that moment, my breathing was amazing—a first in over a year.”
“I don’t want to argue about it. They can check us, and if they don’t want to help, we leave.”

You don’t assess.
You antagonise.

👁 A LIFETIME OF NON-BELIEF:

“My whole life I’ve had to do this because no one believes me when I say I can’t breathe.”
“This includes schools, universities, parents, employers. Everyone.”
“Now I watch my children get treated the same way. And I get blamed for defending them.”

What you call "concern," we recognise as generational disbelief.
And it’s been archived.

🫁 WE WANT ASTHMATIC FRIENDS, NOT GASLIGHTERS:

“Blind people have blind friends. Deaf people have deaf friends. Even races stick to their own.”
“We want friends who have asthma. Severe asthma.”
“People who understand what it means to live like this.”
“We create our own fun. We invite those who respect our lungs.”

We are not antisocial.
We are allergically selective.

⚠️ SOCIETY IS THE ISOLATOR. NOT US:

“We are isolated due to our asthma and society’s unwillingness to accept us.”
“We want to be social, but not with people who deny our experience.”
“It is traumatising because no one understands us.”

Inclusion without understanding is surveillance, not solidarity.
We decline the invitation.

📎 ACCESS STATEMENT (FOR THE RECORD, AGAIN):

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

You ignore our lungs and interrogate our tone.
We are done performing for your disbelief.

Polly Chromatic
Mother of four. Each one breathes truth louder than your policy.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Breaths Backed Up.

Three Problems, One Condition, No Compassion.

🖋 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

📍 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

❌ THREE RECURRING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES:

Defensive hospital staff who treat symptoms as accusations.
Protocol defiance and diagnostic laziness, dressed in lanyards.
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.

🫁 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.

👁 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.

💡 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.

📎 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.

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.

Asthma, Intellect, and the Fantasy of Abandonment

⟡ I Was Dying. They Searched My House. ⟡

Filed: 18 October 2021
Reference: SWANK/TCI/2021-POLICE-SOCIALDEV-BREACH
📎 Download PDF — 2021-10-18_SWANK_TCI_SocialDevPoliceMisconduct_EmergencyRetaliation_Godet_Taylor.pdf

I. A Breathing Emergency. A Forced Investigation. A State That Couldn’t Wait.

This document records a singular horror: a respiratory medical collapse, followed not by care or pause — but by a raid.

What the timeline shows:

An emergency ambulance was called
The parent was unconscious and removed to hospital
While she was gone, police and social workers entered the home
Children were questioned, separated, and threatened
One child — with an intellectual disability — was asked who would take care of them now

No warrant.
No safeguarding trigger.
Just institutional presumption masquerading as procedure.

This wasn’t welfare.
This was retaliation — activated by vulnerability.

II. The Scene They Created

Present:

Social worker Vernita Godet
Officer Kayon Taylor
Multiple uniformed police
Children — one still recovering from trauma, one neurodivergent, all terrified

The mother had just been hospitalised for Eosinophilic Asthma — an emergency for which she was medically shielded and previously endangered.

She returned to:

Her children visibly shaken
Her home violated
Her authority as a parent treated as null

III. Why SWANK Filed It

Because this was not an oversight.
It was a state-led dramaturgy of suspicion — staged while the mother was unconscious.

Because when social workers exploit medical trauma as a moment to assert jurisdiction, they do not protect children — they perform authority.

Because when you’re ill, and alone, and disabled —
they assume you are unfit.
And when you recover, they expect silence.

But SWANK files instead.

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not consider forced entry during a medical crisis to be lawful contact.
We do not accept the use of children’s confusion as investigatory leverage.
We do not mistake a uniform for legitimacy.

Let the record show:

The mother was hospitalised
The children were traumatised
The state interpreted illness as abandonment
And SWANK — interpreted that as breach

This is not drama.
This is procedure deployed as punishment.