“zoo” is driving my mom absurd – 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 legitimately awful time! Sometimes 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 Mom was a raging abusive alcoholic who often threatened us, however he was removed from the property and then stalked us for several years. My oldest sibling 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 bedroom. It was a good way to escape from all the drama. However, it often created even more drama by frustratedting my mother. She was typically raging about the poor 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 typically floating around in the air and it was slowly ruining his central heating and cooling system… As a kid, I legitimately did not understand how our air temperature control unit was being affected by a few pets. I tried to fix the issue by hanging air filters in my room and officially grooming my pets so less hair was escaping into our indoor air. I also started changing our Heating, Ventilation & A/C air filter every 2 weeks, according to my mom’s demands. As a kid, I actually could not 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 can’t guess that he let me keep so several wild critters in my room.