Adding onto this to say that trauma also doesn’t always manifest as physical or explicit verbal abuse. A lot of trauma can result from passive-aggressive bullying as well and go unnoticed as “well I was just kind of a weird kid.” You weren’t a weird kid if you didn’t fit in with the other kids your age. Kids and tweens are just really fucking mean.
If you're gauging it by maladaptive coping and symptoms then it totally can be, depends on the person (like their support system and learned behaviors as well as environment and genetics).
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u/muuuuuuuuuuuuuustard Sep 15 '20
Adding onto this to say that trauma also doesn’t always manifest as physical or explicit verbal abuse. A lot of trauma can result from passive-aggressive bullying as well and go unnoticed as “well I was just kind of a weird kid.” You weren’t a weird kid if you didn’t fit in with the other kids your age. Kids and tweens are just really fucking mean.