Childhood Trauma & Its Echo (incl. ACE)
The validated 10-item ACE study, plus how early adversity still lives in your body and beliefs today
About this assessment
A deep, two-part self-reflection. The first part is the exact Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire (ACE; Felitti et al., 1998, CDC-Kaiser) — ten public-domain yes/no questions about what happened before your 18th birthday, scorable on its own as a 0-10 ACE score. The second part is original, trauma-informed reflection on how that early adversity may still echo in the present: intrusions and re-experiencing, avoidance and numbing, hypervigilance and startle, and the quiet negative beliefs ("I am unsafe, unlovable, to blame") that adversity can leave behind. Gentle, non-stigmatizing, and concrete. This is educational screening for reflection and is not a diagnosis. These questions are sensitive — go at your own pace, and stop if you need to.
Your result breaks down across 5 measured dimensions
This assessment includes built-in validity checks. Your result includes a confidence rating based on response consistency.