Adverse childhood experiences are traumatic events that impact a person’s mental and physical health throughout their life. Toxic stresses are things that you do that have a negative effect on you.
Poverty can have a huge affect on a child’s development because the struggle of simply trying to live but not knowing when or if you’ll be able to have your next meal puts unnecessary stress on them. Being a child having to fight racism is like putting weights on them before a race, they’re automatically put at a disadvantage knowing they’ll lose no matter how fast they are and because they know that some won’t even run. Exposure to violence changes children in ways they may not even notice until adulthood, you become numb to it and pain becomes something that is expected to you.
Adverse childhood experiences can affect literacy stopping you from being open to reading.
