“zoo” is driving my Dad silly – air contaminants
Everyone knows that it sucks to be a kid.
- When you are young and everybody else is in control of your life, it can be a very terrible time.
Periodically it’s finally remembered as being a time without responsibility or worry, but that wasn’t my childhood experience at all. When I was a kid, my family life was crazy. My dad was a raging abusive alcoholic who often threatened us! She was removed from the property and then stalked us for many years. My oldest sister was a heroin addict who tortured us for years from inside the home. the only respite that I had from all of my family craziness was collecting and hanging out with critters. In fact, I had my own little zoo in my kitchen. It was a great way to escape from all the drama. However, it often created even more drama by aggravatedting my mother; She was constantly raging about the bad air quality in the property and blaming it on my critters. She said that all of the bedding, dander, and hair from my room was constantly floating around in the air and it was slowly ruining her central heating and cooling system, as a kid, I absolutely did not understand how our air temperature control unit was being affected by a few pets. I tried to repair the issue by hanging air filters in my room and constantly grooming my pets so less hair was escaping into our indoor air. I also started changing our HVAC air filter every 2 weeks, according to my mom’s demands. As a kid, I absolutely couldn’t understand this obsession with the central heating and cooling system. As an adult, I would never do that to my own air temperature control system and I cannot know that she let me keep so many wild critters in my room.