A History of Childhood Trauma Makes Us Feel Different. Are We?
You hear this a lot among people who experienced childhood trauma. They have trouble shaking the feeling that they’re somehow different , as if everyone else seems to know something — how to act, what to say, how to be connected — and that somehow we never got the memo. Do you ever feel like that? I know we’re not the only ones. But it seems to be a big part of living with the adult symptoms that follow abuse and neglect in childhood. Is this feeling of being different just in our minds? The...