Teacher didn't believe i had asthma and wouldn't let me leave to get my inhaler. Passed out in class and had to go to the hospital

Edit: takes place in Canada. Sorry i didn't mention it

Edit 2: Prob doesn't really matter but, I'm a girl, just seen a bunch of ppl in comments think I'm a guy XD

Obligatory mobile ftp ltl, English is my first (and only) language but i suck at it so apologies for misspelling or grammar. I'll try to catch what i can. Long post sorry. Tldr at bottom

So, after seeing a bunch of stories about teachers or adults not believing someone has a condition they say they have. Thought i would post my own. Compliance was more on me not being good at confrontation (i nearly cried) so if it doesn't belong here please tell me, and let me know where i could post this if you think ppl will actually like it

This happened back in high school, early grade 11 if it matters. My physics teacher, I'll call him... Mr. R i guess, was a good enough guy. Knew the material, did a good job explaining it, very strict but not unbearingly so. The problem came when i found out he didn't believe i had asthma.

Idk if he was new to the school or something but after the school had to make a 911 call for me in 9th grade, almost every teacher i had seemed to know about it. Or when i told them i had asthma, just so they'd now in case i had an attack, they'd either be like "thanks for letting me know" or "oh right, i heard about that. Just let me know whenever you feel an attack coming"

This teacher however, was different, he still thanked me for informing him but he didn't really sound convinced. I didn't really pay it mind, as my asthma was alot better then when i was a child, (Hospital was basically my second home early in my life) and i wasn't too concerned about an attack in a physics classroom (grade 9 attack happened in woodshop and i was more worried about it happening in auto)

2-3months into the course I'm surprised with the start of an attack. Asthma note, for those who don't know, it feels like your chest and throat is starting to squeeze. Imagine taking one of those really thin straws some places use for pop and breath through that and only that for a couple min. It's not fun. I go to get my inhaler only to find, i forget to put it in my bag that morning. No worries, it doesn't seem too bad of an attack atm, and i have an inhaler i left in the office just in case it gets worse

As the title says, things didn't go well. I tried calming my breathing to stop it, but once i started coughing i knew i needed that inhaler. So i stand up and ask to go to the office to get it. As I'm walking to the door Mr. R looks right at me and says no and to sit down. Shocked, confused and lacking oxygen, i tell him I'm having an attack and need my inhaler or I'll most likely end up in the hospital. Bastard tells me he doesn't believe i have asthma, and he can clearly tell I'm faking it just to get out of class. I have skipped a coiple classes before, as i was an idiot. But i still got good grades and have never tried skipping a class once I've already entered tho room.

For the third time i tell him, through coughing at an alarming rate at this point, i really am having an attack and I'm not only gonna need my inhaler, at this point i also need 911 called. He angrily yells at me to sit down and to stop coughing as it's distracting and no ones buying it. None of the students really said anything, as i was the anti social dork who seemed to slip into the background, so only my friends knew i was the kid who got hospitalized. Me, being horrible at confrontation sit down and start to tear up. I prob would've cried but i the whole not breathing thing was what my body was more interested in. Knowing i was prob gonna pass out soon anyway, i tried in vain to stop coughing like he told me to, more to at least try being comfortable. Another note on asthma, near the tail end of an attack like this, at least for me, the coughing does start stopping.... cause coughing needs air to actually be in your lungs to do so.

After a couple agonizing minutes the coughing slowly starts getting quieter, as each cough has less air to use, and starts fading to quiet wheezing, and any air i get almost immediately gets coughed out. I think he goes to say "that wasn't so hard was it" or something along those lines. Idk, i passed out on the first 2 words. Cue me waking up in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. A familiar sight but definitely not one i enjoy.

I heard of the aftermath through a couple ppl. My aunt was one of the learning aides at the school, and word gets around pretty quick when ppl start texting their friends. Upon overhearing a girl tell her friend "Some kid just stopped breathing and died in Mr. Rs class" (people exaggerate) she immediately called my parents knowing it was me. One of the other kids in that class said the instant i slumped off my chair he at first though i was again faking and yelled at me to get up, till the person beside me told Mr. R he didn't think i was breathing, then he went white as a sheet and called the schools emergency response (read teachers with medical training, we didn't have a nurses office)

Idk what kind of discipline he got, as i still saw him teaching that class when i got back. I tried asking the receptionist but she didn't know either, only that she heard muffled yelling from the principal in his office when he was called in. He apologized profusely and became extremely protective. If i coughed for any reason no matter how small he was immediately asking if i was ok and if i had or needed my inhaler. That was the last major attack I've had, been six years and i have yet to go to the hospital for asthma (Yay!) But somce then when i told my teachers both the remaining 3 years i was there (I was there for 6 years total cause I set up a course plan for less workload per year) and in college, i always mention how i once had to be hospitalized because a teacher didn't believe me when i said i was having an attack

Quick note, i have met ppl who've never seen anyone have an asthma attack before, so to them it prob does sound like lot of fake coughing. And I'm pale asf already so turning white from not breathing wasn't that big of a change from my usual complexion

Tldr: Physics teacher didn't believe i had asthma, thought an attack was just me faking so i could skip class and told me to sit down, i do so and proceed to pass out in class from lack of oxygen, end up going to hospital and teacher gets chewed out by the principal (and possibly some other discipline idk, i was never told) teacher became super protective and asked if i was ok if i coughed for any reason.