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The article’s third misconception is not taking into account the age of the person experiencing the trauma. An adult’s brain is more resilient to trauma than a child’s brain, especially if the adult had a healthy and loving childhood. Psychiatrist Bruce Perry describes a common misconception about childhood trauma that was widespread when he began working with abused children in the 1980s, and how this misconception persists today:

Unfortunately, the prevailing view of children and trauma at the time—one that persists to a large degree to this day—is that “children are resilient.” … If anything, children are more vulnerable to trauma than adults … The developing brain is most malleable and most sensitive to experience—both good and bad—early in life. (This is why we so easily and rapidly learn language, social nuance, motor skills and dozens of other things in childhood, and why we speak of “formative” experiences.) … Consequently, we are also rapidly and easily transformed by trauma when we are young. Though its effects may not always be visible to the untrained eye, when you know what trauma can do to children, sadly, you begin to see its aftermath everywhere.7