🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024
I’M NOT AVOIDING THERAPY. YOU’RE AVOIDING ACCESS.
Also titled: “When Silence Is the Only Accommodation You Won’t Offer.”
Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Therapy Denial · Access Sabotage · Disability Discrimination · Community Exclusion · Verbal Adjustment Refusal · SWANK Procedural Harm Index
To: Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi, Laura Savage, Simon O’Meara
🩺 THE STATEMENT THEY RECEIVED—AND STILL REFUSED TO UNDERSTAND:
“I’d love to go to therapy but no one will provide adjustments for my disability needs...”
“It is not our problem. It is your community’s problem.”
“You keep expecting us to behave like people who don’t have a disability—and we can’t.”
“Someone needs to call the mental health practice and explain that I can’t explain everything verbally.”
You didn’t misunderstand.
You simply didn’t care to translate accommodation into action.
🧠 FOR THOSE ALLERGIC TO DIGNITY, HERE’S A TRANSLATION:
I asked for therapy.
You offered a trapdoor lined with expectations.
I required written communication.
You insisted on performance.
I named the exclusion.
You punished the diagnosis.
This is not “non-engagement.”
It’s exclusion, dressed up in procedural couture.
📎 ACCESS STATEMENT (IGNORED, AS EVER):
“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”
Your refusal is now formal.
Your evasion is now archived.
Polly Chromatic
Denied services. Denying your excuses.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
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