Comment by caeril

ACE score of 1, my parents were pretty great.

But if this test were applied to other kids, it would be off the charts. Abused and neglected in every way imaginable by my peers, growing up.

It's always annoyed me that if your abusers weren't your caregivers, your trauma is never taken seriously by the mental health community.

But it is what it is. I'm doing very well financially and professionally, I have a wife and kids, I am strong, fit, and healthy. But I have no friends, and it's impossible to relate with other people. Perpetually lonely, always the outcast, even decades after adolescence.