As I say, it all comes down to fuzzy sets, and even if the boundaries are fuzzy it is ingenuous to pretend they don't exist or don't matter, which I can't help feeling is what you are edging towards.
No, it's not. To give chronic fatigue as an example, obviously having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is horrible and disabling and given the option anyone who has it would choose not to. But lots of able bodied people have chronic fatigue in the sense of being tired a lot, and that's normal. So I see it as a continuum which goes from no fatigue (which would be abnormal) to "normal" fatigue (which varies dramatically depending on your job, other health issues, level of pollution around you etc) to serious chronic fatigue, and while I agree that CFS (and equivalent conditions) are definitely bad (and worse) I see no easy line to draw between "disabled" and "normal".
Which doesn't make much difference to treatment etc in the real world (there's no rule saying people with non-disabling levels of fatigue can't try to get it fixed too!) but makes me feel hinky at anyone saying there's a neat dividing line between "healthy and normal" and "disabled", where only the latter group need to change to be perfectly happy.
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No, it's not. To give chronic fatigue as an example, obviously having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is horrible and disabling and given the option anyone who has it would choose not to. But lots of able bodied people have chronic fatigue in the sense of being tired a lot, and that's normal. So I see it as a continuum which goes from no fatigue (which would be abnormal) to "normal" fatigue (which varies dramatically depending on your job, other health issues, level of pollution around you etc) to serious chronic fatigue, and while I agree that CFS (and equivalent conditions) are definitely bad (and worse) I see no easy line to draw between "disabled" and "normal".
Which doesn't make much difference to treatment etc in the real world (there's no rule saying people with non-disabling levels of fatigue can't try to get it fixed too!) but makes me feel hinky at anyone saying there's a neat dividing line between "healthy and normal" and "disabled", where only the latter group need to change to be perfectly happy.