Your past shouldn't define your future.Understand your ACE score.
Take our confidential assessment, no sign-up required, to unlock your path to healing.
Ten short yes/no questions, about two minutes, confidential and no sign-up required. There's no wrong answer — just a clearer picture, and real next steps when you're done.
Before you start: a few of these questions touch on difficult childhood experiences. Take this whenever it feels right for you — there's no rush, and you can stop at any time.
After the test, we'll ask a few optional, confidential questions about you — things like age, sex, and background. They're never used to identify you, only to understand how ACEs impact different populations, and you can skip them if you'd rather not answer.
The questions are based on the original research and may not quite capture what happened to you; that's what the comment section on each question is for — we want to hear it.
Did anything else happen?
The ten questions above are from the ACE Questionnaire (Felitti & Anda, version 092406RA4CR), used by researchers for over 25 years — so your score above won't change based on what you tell us here. But every childhood is different, and some things that shape people deeply don't fit neatly into those ten questions. If any of these happened to you before you turned 18, we'd like to know.
These help us see how ACEs show up across different groups
Never used to identify you — answer as many or as few as you'd like, or skip this section entirely.
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