I always felt different from my family like I didn’t quite fit in with my mum was awful to me I had to analyse my life to be able to find my way out of darkness that was cast upon me by my mother who smacked me from I was a very young child so I have never used physical punishment on my children I think it’s wrong to pick up a child by one arm and tan the back of there legs to think about it and honey I have I just don’t understand and my dad beat me with a belt and another’s time he back handed me in the kitchen and from there forth I used to suffer from earache I can remember my mother would smack me during the day and then tell my dad stories so that he would smack me when he came home from a young age I knew I had to make myself scarce I used to avoid my mum if she was not giving me chores to do I would be getting beat up I can remember my mum beating me up I was around ten years old I left my parents home at fourteen and went into care I had my first flat at sixteen I have never lived back with my parents