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Mirror Court Dispatch – Journal Series
The Child Who Lost the Wind
In Re: Bicycle Bans, Asthma Denial, and the Micromanagement of Joy
Metadata
Filed: 1 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-JOURNAL-0825
Filename: 2025-08-01_SWANK_JournalEntry_BikeBan_AsthmaNeglect.pdf
1-Line Summary:
A child’s handwritten page mourns the loss of freedom, exercise, expression, and breath.
I. WHAT HAPPENED
This journal page — written by a 16-year-old U.S. citizen under UK state care — testifies to a quiet but catastrophic truth: his freedom to move, write, and breathe has been suspended, not for safety, but for punishment.
He writes not from rebellion, but from logic.
Not to dramatise — but to survive.
His entries reveal that:
He was banned from riding bikes following one “mistake”
He has not been allowed to engage in cardio — despite its role in managing his eosinophilic asthma
He has been without phone or internet contact for an extended, unspecified period
He is granted approximately “30 minutes of TV once every blue moon”
He feels trapped, reflective, and systemically silenced
This is not an emotional outburst.
It is a respiratory affidavit written in ink.
II. WHAT THE COMPLAINT ESTABLISHES
This page reveals:
Arbitrary Control – “Why can she say I can’t ride bikes anymore?”
Power Imbalance – “Why does she have the power to make me not do something I enjoy?”
Asthma Neglect – “I liked getting my cardio in to help my asthma get better.”
Punitive Logic – “Since I make one mistake I can’t ride anymore?”
Technological Censorship – “How long it’s gone without a phone or even any internet…”
Surveillance Normalisation – “30 min once every blue moon” — a ration, not a right
It reads like adolescent poetry. But this is not metaphor.
This is the literal architecture of psychological suffocation.
III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT
Because courts need more than filtered reports.
Because social workers cannot be the only authors of truth.
Because asthma doesn’t pause for bureaucracy.
Because no policy justifies telling a boy he cannot ride a bike, use a pencil, or breathe freely.
This is not just evidence.
This is jurisprudential testimony in cursive form.
He wrote it because no one was listening.
We publish it because someone must.
IV. VIOLATIONS
Children Act 1989, s.1(3) – Ignoring the child’s wishes and feelings
ECHR Article 8 – Infringement on private life and dignity
UNCRC Articles 12 & 13 – Suppression of expression, voice, and thought
Equality Act 2010, s.20 – Failure to make adjustments for chronic asthma
Safeguarding Duty – Medical neglect by restricting exercise and hydration
Disability Rights Law – Indirect discrimination through punitive routine
V. SWANK’S POSITION
This journal entry has been formally logged, archived, and published in velvet contempt of the institutions responsible for the child’s emotional, physical, and respiratory deterioration.
He should not be punished for having feelings.
He should not be silenced for needing cardio.
He should not be documenting abuse while others document compliance.
He wrote this entry alone. But he is not alone.
His handwriting is now jurisprudence.
His breath will not be controlled — only counted.
Filed in solemn objection, procedural defiance, and archival rage,
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
www.swanklondon.com