“zoo” is driving my mom crazy – 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 truly bad 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, then my dad was a raging abusive alcoholic who often threatened us. He was unfastened from the household and then stalked us for several years. My oldest brother 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 animals. In fact, I had my own little zoo in my study room. It was a great way to escape from all the drama. However, it often created even more drama by frustratedting my mother, and she was consistently raging about the bad air quality in the household and blaming it on my animals. She said that all of the bedding, dander, and hair from my room was always floating around in the air and it was slowly ruining her central heating and cooling system! As a kid, I actually did not understand how our air temperature control component was being affected by a few pets. I tried to fix the issue by hanging air filters in my room and properly grooming my pets so less hair was escaping into our indoor air. I also started changing our Heating and Air Conditioning air filter every 2 weeks, according to my mom’s demands. As a kid, I actually 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 can’t know that she let me keep so several wild animals in my room.