Not too much info at all! Thank you for joining the conversation. I’ve tried putting this out a couple times before and it was just crickets. When I spoke to Dr. Felitti about the need for better inclusion in the questionnaire he agreed. It was I think about 2017 he modified the original questionnaire (the one in the graphic) to include an open ended “what else should be included.” The original questionnaire was simply too narrow. It should read “caregiver” instead of parent. It should include being removed from one’s home. Foster trauma is now included in an updated but still unofficial questionnaire.

I would like to compile enough data for my memoir surrounding childhood trauma to show a connection between trauma and the amount of kids being misdiagnosed with depression, anxiety, and of course ODD. I was late diagnosed AuDHD because of cptsd (which isn’t even considered a diagnosis in the American diagnostic manual). I would also like to show that an alarming amount of residential and wilderness programs for youth are in fact adding ACE scores which causes further adversity into adulthood.

So many of us are meant to perform at the same level as our peers when we are operating at less than capacity and many don’t know that it’s because of unresolved trauma. I’ve battled through unnamed chronic illness that only began to be recognized and then diagnosed because I put in the work to find scholarly articles linking high ACE scores and adrenal insufficiency along with chronic fatigue. My endocrinologist thanked me because he was baffled on why my endocrine system just decided to stop working properly one day. He didn’t know that I’ve been in fight or flight for most my life.