While some research suggests that trauma is stored in the body, wound up deep inside of us waiting to be unraveled and discovered, a new study from Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience pushes back against that assumption, naming prediction systems and cognitive processes as the most common victims of PTSD and unresolved trauma. If someone has traumatic intelligence, the rarest form of being smart, their minds have been changed by their trauma. In many ways, they’ve become more pessimistic or negative, but they’ve also become particular and hypervigilant in ways that may give them a protective edge. Here are 11 signs someone has traumatic intelligence, the rarest form of being smart 1. They absorb other people’s energy Dragon Images | Shutterstock Many people with trauma develop a sense of social awareness by default or out of survival. Especially with toxic parents at home, figuring out someone’s mood and how to deal with them to keep the peace was a necessity for their well-being. As adults, they have a similar skill in sensing people’s energy in a room or …