Doğan Kitap If I Had Grown Up Differently

Have you ever thought about how your life would be if you were raised in another family?

If you had grown up in the same family but with a different approach—if you had received more love, if you had never been compared to others, and if you had always felt that you were one of a kind—what kind of person would you have become?
Or if you’d been constantly frightened, criticized, never knowing when love would come or when anger would erupt, and had grown up without ever feeling safe—what kind of person would you have become? *If I’d Grown Up Differently* tells the story of three distinct possibilities for the same child, shaped by three different family environments. The same family, the same home… Similar people, similar breakdowns, similar losses… The only thing that changes is the atmosphere of the home. In all three lives, our protagonist is Deniz. From the outside, the lives of these three Denizs appear nearly identical; the real difference lies not in their pasts, but in how they view themselves, their relationships, and the ways they cope with their wounds.

Saniye bencik kangal, known as the academician mother, conveys her knowledge and experience in the field of child development in "if we had grown up differently" by combining it with a strong narrative. while making the sound of the language we learned in childhood visible inside us, it leaves us with this question: if we had grown up differently, who would we be today?