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harleythealter · 10 months

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Me: I shouldn’t go swimming if there’s chlorine in that pool because I’m allergic.

Every other person I’ve had this conversation with: Isn’t everybody allergic to chlorine?

Me: Well-

Every other person I’ve had this conversation with: -because it’s really bad for everybody.

Me: I mean that I’m really really allergic. As in I stop breathing and feel like I’m suffocating. It’s probably best if I stay behind and read in my room instead.

Me(alternatively): I actually mean that I have an asthma attack when I go in chlorine water, or when I enter a pool room, or when I walk past a swimming pool, even out in the open. I’m saying I can’t go with you if you decide to do that activity for your birthday/event/whatever.

Every other person I’ve had this conversation with: Oh… well maybe you shouldn’t come then.

Me: *fakes a smile and blinks a few times* I agree.

#harleythealter #asthma #my mild asthma turns significantly less mild as soon as I’m around that swimming pool #only lakes and oceans for me :P #isn’t that silly #it’s actually quite serious but I don’t know how to process serious things #severe chlorine allergy #i probably should start listing chlorine as an allergy on my chemistry sheets…#random dialogue #irl dialogue #this has happened more than I’d like to count #finally my mom realized it’s an actual problem #my brothers still tell me to go swimming more because i just have weak lungs…#it’s really hard to add tags that already exist-isn’t it?

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