“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Documented Obsessions

Verbal Warfare Is a Privilege We Don’t Possess


๐Ÿ–‹ ๐’ฎ๐’ฒ๐’œ๐’ฉ๐’ฆ Dispatch | 23 November 2024

“We Only Speak When It’s Sacred”
Filed Under: Respiratory Discrimination · Verbal Coercion · Disability Adjustment Refusal · Pediatric Neglect · SWANK London Ltd

Dear Kirsty,

“I don’t appreciate the way they treat us when we go to the hospital unable to breathe, when we can’t defend ourselves verbally.”

In the theatre of institutional care, breathlessness is viewed with suspicion—especially when paired with advocacy.

In your world, dialogue is default.
In ours, dialogue is dangerous.

“All they want to do is argue.”

You frame it as procedure.
We experience it as persecution.
Theirs is a system that equates silence with guilt, and speech with noncompliance.

“They refused to check Honor.”

A child, visibly unwell, discarded because her mother could not perform distress in their preferred dialect.

What kind of clinic demands oxygenated obedience as a precondition for care?

What kind of safeguarding officer allows it?

“Apparently other people can talk more easily because they waste it on arguing so often.”

Indeed.

But I speak only when it’s sacred.
When words are necessary. When life is at stake.
That is not silence. That is strategy.

๐Ÿ“ Composed in Controlled Breath. Filed in Refusal of Debate.

Polly Chromatic
Guardian of Honor · Silence Strategist · Director, SWANK London Ltd
✉ director@swanklondon.com | ๐ŸŒ www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Breath Accounted For. All Abuse Indexed.


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Your Debate Is My Airway Obstruction


๐Ÿ–‹ ๐’ฎ๐’ฒ๐’œ๐’ฉ๐’ฆ Dispatch | 23 November 2024

“We Don’t Argue. We Breathe with Precision.”
Filed Under: Respiratory Violence · Verbal Coercion in A&E · Child Protection by Silence · Adjustment Refusal · SWANK London Ltd

Dear Kirsty,

“All they want to do is argue.”
And I want to live.

This is not a disagreement.
This is a documented breach of medical protocol—masquerading as “communication.”

When we arrive at A&E, we are not offering persuasion.
We are offering symptoms.
And the response? A combative interrogation.

“We don’t have time or respiratory capacity to do that.”

Not then.
Not ever.
Not again.

“After they abuse us, everyone blames me…”

It is a pattern.

  1. Refuse care.

  2. Demand justification.

  3. Pathologise the victim for failing to perform the dialogue that harms them.

This is not miscommunication. It is deliberate institutional cruelty, enforced by expectation of verbal labour from the breathless.

And Honor?

She will not be sacrificed to the same ritual.

“Apparently other people can talk more easily because they waste it on arguing so often.”

Correct.
We don’t waste oxygen.

We speak like sovereigns.
When we do, it is sacred, strategic, and documented.

“We only talk when it’s meaningful.”

That is not avoidance.
That is clinical clarity.
And if you cannot match that precision, you have no business presiding over breath.

๐Ÿ“ Transcribed in Silence. Filed in Defence of Oxygen.

Polly Chromatic
Director of Strategic Silence & Verbal Integrity
✉ director@swanklondon.com | ๐ŸŒ www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Arguments Declined. All Adjustments Archived.



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The Three Problems You Keep Ignoring (and the One Community We’re Still Building)


๐Ÿ–‹ SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024

“We’re Not Liars. We Just Can’t Breathe.”
Filed Under: Clinical Gaslighting · Asthma Stigma · Verbal Coercion · Medical Torture · Social Rejection · SWANK London Ltd

Dear Kirsty,

Let me enumerate—since institutional minds require bullet points to recognise lived experience:

  1. The defensive posture of hospital staff.

  2. Their refusal to follow respiratory protocol.

  3. The insinuation that needing to breathe must be performed, proven, or denied.

You wanted “safeguarding.”
I gave you oxygen.
You asked for history, then punished it mid-sentence.

“Dr Arjumand said: I don’t believe you.”
Several times. With intent.

And just like that: my lungs collapsed.
My recovery reversed.
You took improvement and turned it into procedural injury.

This is not personal grievance.
It is generational. Institutional. Coded into the architecture of disbelief.

I have lived this disbelief in schools, universities, and workplaces.
Now my children inherit it in hospitals.

When they don’t “perform” asthma, they are shamed.
When I advocate, I am framed.

“We don’t want to be social with regular people.”
“We want to be social with other people who have asthma. Very bad asthma like ours.”

That’s not alienation. That’s respiratory refuge.
The world that demands effortless breathing has no place for us.

You call it isolation.
We call it selective inclusion.

“Deaf people have deaf friends. Blind people have blind friends.”

And asthmatics?
We form alliances built on shared air, not shallow pleasantries.
We socialise through oxygen fluency—not forced integration.

I breastfed all four of them hoping they’d escape this fate.
They didn’t. But they gained something else: sovereignty.

So no, we won’t argue for our right to breathe.
We’ll document your disbelief.
And exhale our resistance into the record.

๐Ÿ“ Not Broken. Not Lying. Just Done Explaining.
Polly Chromatic
Founding Archivist, Oxygen Sovereignty Collective
✉ director@swanklondon.com
๐ŸŒ www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Disbeliefs Rejected.


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Socialising Is Not a Crime—Asthma Is Not a Sin


๐Ÿ–‹ SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024

“We Moved Here to Breathe, Not to Be Blamed for It”
Filed Under: Asthma Stigma · Cultural Displacement · Institutional Suspicion · Social Exclusion · SWANK London Ltd

Dear Kirsty,

“We felt isolated in Turks and Caicos and came here because we love the people and socialising…”

We did not arrive in Britain looking for handouts.
We came seeking kinship — in breath, in conversation, in care.

“However, people here don’t like that we have asthma.”

As if a respiratory condition were a social offense.
As if needing air meant forfeiting belonging.

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

And in this house, feelings are not anecdotes — they are evidence.
A long data trail of:
– blank stares when we ask for help
– withheld empathy
– and silence when your policies fail us

This is not a cry for inclusion.
It is a record of administrative aversion dressed as neutrality.

“(But we feel better now that you are all helping.)”

Hope. Noted. But qualified.
Because assistance without stability is not care.
It’s crisis management with manners.

If help evaporates at the first boundary, it was never real.

๐Ÿ“ Filed on Behalf of All Uninvited From Their Own Lungs
Polly Chromatic
Asthmatic Witness · Displaced Care-Seeker · Misread Visitor
✉ director@swanklondon.com
๐ŸŒ www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Rejections Remembered.


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The Hospital That Bullied Me for Needing Oxygen


๐Ÿ–‹ SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024

“You Called It ‘Erratic.’ I Call It Trying to Breathe.”
Filed Under: A&E Abuse · Disability Gaslighting · NHS Denial · Child Medical Neglect · SWANK London Ltd

Dear Kirsty,

“Yes, the hospital’s perspective is what I’ve been asking about for an entire year.”

And in that year, they’ve offered no clarity—only euphemism and blame.
The word they reached for? “Erratic.”

Let us correct the record:

What you call erratic in a disabled woman is in fact:

  • A refusal to argue with people trained to disbelieve

  • A choice not to waste oxygen on provocation

  • A quiet exit from a place that provides harm instead of help

This is not behavioural. It is respiratory.

“When a woman in the waiting area was abusing me, they blamed me for that.”

Because in the A&E caste system, the asthmatic mother who doesn’t speak is always guilty.
St Thomas. St Mary’s. Chelsea and Westminster.
Change the badge, not the behaviour.

And now?

“All the hospitals refuse to treat my kids more than they refuse to treat me.”

That’s not a fluke.
It is intergenerational cruelty administered in NHS lanyards.

“I’m going to sue them. It’s child neglect.”

Correct. And it will be framed not as anecdote, but as state-enabled malice—
documented, cross-referenced, and submitted with receipts.

“I do not waste my time arguing with people.”
“I simply document it online and move on.”

That is not evasion. That is litigation choreography.

You do not get to debate this.
You get archived.

๐Ÿ“ Filed Without Breath. Posted Without Permission.
Polly Chromatic
Archival Mother · NHS Witness · Legal Storm-In-Waiting
✉ director@swanklondon.com
๐ŸŒ www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Hostilities Recorded.


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