A Child Called It

My favorite book is 'A Child Called It' by Dave Pelzer. I was a young teenager when I read it, and it is still my favorite book to this day. In the book, Pelzer describes his life of being abused by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. The only thing that kept him going was the hopes of someone loving him, looking at him as their son, and not an "it".

This book made me realize that not everyone has a good life at home, even at a young age. I started to understand that mental abuse existed along with physical abuse, and it made me want to learn more on the topic. Cases like this interest me a lot, and got me really interested in Psychology. This book also made it easier to understand what happens to someone emotionally when something like this happens to them, which is something most people couldn't even begin to understand.