I have a memory that came to me a few years ago…  I say that it came to me because I did not ‘have’ the memory like you have a memory of your last birthday.  This arrived as a body memory during a therapy session.  I remember being a baby, lying in my cot.  I was alone.  I was staring around.  I felt scared by the bars of the cot, I felt trapped.  But I didn’t cry.  I somehow already knew that there was no point.  I wouldn’t be responded to.  Some may say that this is a form of abuse.  I would say it is but I do not feel that it would be recognised as such under the normal title of ’emotional abuse’ and it certainly wouldn’t be considered as an ACE.  It was too subtle for that.  But it was traumatic.  A young baby needs a caregiver at their side to help them translate their feelings, their bodily responses, their moment-by-moment experiences of the world around them.  They need this attunement.  How long was I really left alone for?  I don’t know.  But, for a baby, even ten minutes can feel like several hours.  Each moment is an eternity of potentially overwhelming inputs.  But this kind of traumatic experience is not investigated in the literature.  No one knows if these kinds of traumas contribute to the development of T1D.