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“I did not want to grow up in scum and villainy, but here I am! Luckily, I had wits, perspective, internal jokes, wishes, hopes and dreams.”

I wrote that today and noticed how the “scum” part falls off, by the time I reach the end of the sentence. I decided it was worth expounding on.

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This came up when a reader brought me the concept of “traumatic intelligence”. It was interesting though I don’t think it applies to me.

For reference, “traumatic intelligence” it s psychological concept that describes how growing up in unpredictable, emotionally volatile, or unsafe environments reshapes the nervous system into a sharp survival mechanism

• Hypervigilance: The nervous system remains on permanent alert, making people quick to notice micro-signals, body language, or changes in tone.
• Reading the Room: An advanced ability to gauge the moods, safety levels, and hidden motives of others to predict conflict before it happens.
• Calm in Crisis: A paradoxical ability to stay completely composed and strategic during emergencies while feeling restless, anxious, or suspicious during periods of peace.
• Radical Self-Reliance: A deep reluctance to ask for help or rely on others because early support felt inconsistent or conditional.
• Emotional Exhaustion: High empathy and deep intuition paired with chronic burnout, overthinking, and difficulty trusting people

Traumatic intelligence said to be where CPTSD and high intelligence meet. I’m skeptical.  It’s not that I don’t think this can happen. It’s that I feel this is reductive; simplifying something that is not at all simple. Ultimately, it becomes a way to tag people. “Oh, he or she was traumatized, therefore this person displays these traits…”  People are not that simple, by a shot.

I’m willing to us myself as an example to illustrate variance.   My traumatic background is well documented. I taught myself to read when I was four years old.  That’s intelligence. Now, let’s look at the traits:

• Hypervigilance: I am generally oblivious. I focus on what I think is important, when I think it’s important for the reasons I think the thing is important.
• Reading the Room: Why bother? People are people; they can do what they want. I’m in my own body, uninterested in seeing people naked.
• Calm in Crisis: Is there blood? If so, I am out of there, assuming I can even move. If bloodless, then yes. I am calm in a crisis.
• Radical Self-Reliance: I constantly try to get people to do things me; join my causes, but yes. If they refuse, then I can and will act alone. It is not my preference.
• Emotional Exhaustion: I tend to be tireless and enter all relationships with the idea my partner can be trusted.

I think this is enough, it should give a person pause before applying this label to themselves and others.  Personally speaking, I was aware I was in major trouble at home; plotting to leave by the time I was six years old. I was not of the “scum and villainy”, but a girl with, “wits and laughs abs wishes, hopes and dreams”. You think I would let someone take this from me?

What do you think of the idea of “traumatic intelligence”?

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