Trauma

0:00

[white noise]

Black text against a white background, in all caps, reads, "Toddler Stress Assessment Video." Underneath it, in a smaller font, says, "Record your child's responses to the following media."

The text, says, "Section one." During each audio, the text, says, "[Audio Play]" in all caps. After each audio, the text says, "Record Response."

[tape placed in]

[bird chirps]

[tape taken out]

[tape placed in]

[baby laughing]

[tape taken out]

[tape placed in]

[sheep baa]

[tape taken out]

Instead of saying, "record response," the text at the bottom says, "daddy didnt tuck me in." Now, the text is at the top and says, "and there is a man in the closet."

The video glitches.

1:04

[white noise]

[several page turns]

Now shown is a series of drawings and writing, some with typos. The first says, "the scary night, by: Mark, age: 4." The second says, "school: Mandela elementary school. grade: 4k." The third says, "daddy didn't check under my bed last night." The fourth says, "so I went to mommy's room." The fifth says, "I was scared. there was scary knocking on the door." The sixth says, "and the scariest part is walking by the dark room by the stairs." The seventh is a drawing of a dark doorway by the stairs, with an arrow pointing to it, labeled, "scary." There is a stick figure on top of the stairs, labeled, "me." The eighth says, "almost at mommy's room. Then I saw the man in the corner." The ninth shows a childish drawing of a smiling man in a dark hood, he is labeled, "him." The tenth says, "and then I fell asleep. The end!!!!"

[static]

2:33

The video moves onto "Section Two."

[white noise]

2:40

[several beeps]

A series of pictures are shown, switching at every beep. They show: a gray cat, a family, and a blue balloon.

[low pitched beep]

The dark doorway by the stairs is shown.

[knocking]

The man Mark drew is now seen on screen accompanied with the text, "an intruder."

[white noise]

The video ends with the text saying, "Module Complete," in all caps. Underneath it, it says, "If anything unexpected occured during the test, let your advisor know immediately."