Comment by brudgers

   All happy families are alike;
   each unhappy family is unhappy 
   in its own way.

The ACE test is convenient and that makes it useful. It validates people’s experiences and that makes it a good thing.

I have a pretty clear idea of how and why my childhood was the way it was. I could stretch and analog my lived experiences to fit the questions.

Gifted has been bullshit in the water where I swim for a long time. Invisible. Dissolved. Gifted was a reason to be othered. Formally. Informally. By institutions, neighbors, family.

The ACE questions were useful to me this morning. As a starting point. I’d forgotten how being labeled gifted actually felt. Worse things have happened to other people. I am not competing. Good luck.