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We Came Here to Breathe — But That Was the Problem: How Asthma Became a Social Offense


⟡ “It’s Like You’re All Angry at Us for Having Asthma” ⟡
A One-Sentence Social Diagnosis That Said More Than a Tribunal Ever Could

Filed: 23 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/EMAIL-09
📎 Download PDF – 2024-11-23_SWANK_Email_Westminster_AsthmaStigma_DisabilityIsolationNote.pdf
Email acknowledging medical and social discrimination toward a family with chronic asthma. Written during a period of safeguarding surveillance and medical strain.

I. What Happened

In this one-paragraph message, Polly Chromatic communicated something that countless forms never ask and no institution admits:

“It’s like you are all angry at us for having asthma. That’s how we feel.”

The email was addressed to social workers, legal advisors, and the family GP. It referenced the family’s prior experience of social exclusion in Turks and Caicos, contrasted with their continued mistreatment in London — despite "help" being offered.

It closed, characteristically, with a polite thank you and a written-only disability declaration.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • The emotional reality of chronic illness stigma across jurisdictions

  • Institutional hostility misdirected at the existence of a diagnosis

  • Social marginalisation reframed as policy concern

  • A legally consistent record of written-only contact preference

  • Asthma not just as medical condition — but as a trigger for systemic rejection

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because in surveillance culture, illness is tolerated — until it becomes inconvenient.

This is not a crisis email. It is a cultural register of how children and parents with asthma are not merely unsupported — they are framed as the problem itself.

SWANK logged it not for its length, but for its clarity.
Some statements are so quiet they become forensic.

IV. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t oversensitivity.
It was social diagnostics in the voice of lived data.

We do not accept that receiving “support” should require being silent about stigma.
We do not accept that asthma should make a family politically suspicious.
We will document every time someone said “thank you” while also saying, “you made us feel hated.”

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

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We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

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