Christine,
I know you addressed your post to someone else but am wanting to add my own reply.
Yes you have been very mild in the past (2006 & before), but what I see of late is someone 'full of beans' and firing on all 8 cylinders. If that is what a Vpap Adapt SV has done for you 'I gotta have one' (just joking my PB330 is doing just great )
I suspect tangents was reacting to your burst of energy rather than the very well explained & detailed points you were trying to make. Also I think the 'scaring newbies with CA bogeymen' issue may not have come across for some others as well as it did for me (& I assume RG & SAG).
Re the summary points ...
Very neat cohesive & tidy set of points (can I borrow them )
An excellent focus on a complex, & to many people scary, aspect of SA - I hope my own message got thru, that it is a very normal process to think we are being affected by centrals when it is likely not the case.
Again, thanks for some very insightful observations & your sensitivity in the other interpersonal matters.
DSM