I've certainly not intended to come across as rude, only as challenging your assertions. But I guess you'll read into it as you may. And I certainly don't go a

I've certainly not intended to come across as rude, only as challenging your assertions. But I guess you'll read into it as you may. And I certainly don't go attacking straw men before you've even had a chance to answer accusations (as in the rude sarcasm part). I also note that you have yet to back up your original assertion that the disease model "posits one notion of normal and then divides everything into "normal therefore fine" or "different, therefore broken"', which is hardly surprising, as it doesn't deal with this definition at all. Take care.