๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ Dispatch | 22 November 2024
“You’ll Get My Reply When I’m Ready — Not When You Panic”
Filed Under: Temporal Sovereignty · Boundary Etiquette · Bureaucratic Grace · SWANK London Ltd
๐ฌ “I will reply to emails later.”
— Six words that unravel procedural egos faster than a FOI request.
Because while you refresh your inbox with anxious entitlement,
I restore breath to my body, balance to my day, and power to the reply button.
๐ฐ “I need to do other things now…”
Yes. Like defend myself from the systems you sent.
Like parent. Like recover. Like breathe.
You mistook my silence for passivity.
It was, in fact, a calibrated pause — the kind only the unlawfully interrupted learn to perfect.
๐ฉ “I will get back to you later.”
Not “if.” Not “when you chase.”
Later. When the reply deserves to exist.
Because I do not write to react. I write to record.
And nothing screams archival dignity louder than a delayed, devastating paragraph.
๐ Legal Positioning
Polite delay is not obstruction.
It is protected under the Equality Act 2010 as a facet of reasonable adjustment for communication-related disabilities.
Let it be known: urgent to you does not override my statutory right to respond with air, not alarm.
๐ Issued From the Realm of Sacred Delay
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๐ Artistic Director of Elegantly Deferred Bureaucracy
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