"I want to tell you something which may not make any sense"

Extract from the movie 'Phoebe in Wonderland' © Silverwood Films/Phoebe in Wonderland, LLC

Phoebe is a young girl with Tourette Syndrome, who has strong obsessive and compulsive behaviours. She is performing the part of Alice in 'Alice in Wonderland' in the school stage production and has been going through a very difficult time at school and in living with her condition. She is sitting on the catwalk above the stage with her very tolerant and understanding drama teacher, Miss Dodger, who says to Phoebe:

"I want to tell you something which may not make any sense.

But I should say it just so that one day, you might remember it,

and maybe it will make you feel better.

At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it

has gone by...

you will open your eyes

and see yourself for who you are...

especially for everything that made you so different

from all the awful normals.

And you will say to yourself...

"But I am this person."

And in that statement, that correction,

there will be a kind of love."

  

Phoebe: "I'm so scared."

Miss Dodger: "We all are."