No I actually live in the same state as you. Spell check doesn't always get it right.

Your quote " and here in the USA it is believed everyone has times when they are fully focused and aware, non dissociated. but it is also used in reference to the alters...."
This is exactly what I am talking about. I do not have a time when I am not a part. We do not know the original self. We think she is in there in some type of hell, but we do not know her. We work, drive, eat, argue, laugh etc. We switch a million times a day. Right now the one who sleeps is not showing up all the time. Not sure why but sleep is impossible without her. There is no "focused and aware, non dissociated" self who functions in the world. It took me almost three years reading, and blogging to find out that I am not the only one like this. Even my t has a hard time wrapping her head around this concept because it isn't in DSM V. It's not your way of being so I get that you can't imagine it but it is our way of being and I wish people would understand that we, this type of system exist and that we may never be just one because that original self is unreachable.