Show Us Who You Are Quotes

“I have every right to be here. As me. Exactly as I am. I might be different to you, I might be different to every person in this room, but you have no more of a right to exist than I do. You don't get to pick and choose which bits of me are fine. All of me is fine.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Grief is just love asking for more time.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“The minute you find out what makes you different, the minute you love it and accept it and say you wouldn't change who you are, that's when you become dangerous.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Grief is like rain. When you’re standing in the street, drenched and freezing cold, it’s hard to remember what it’s like to feel warm and dry. It’s hard to imagine feeling warm and dry ever again. But some people are umbrellas. And they keep away the worst of the storm.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Walking a lonely path by yourself, one that no one else has walked before, is only scary before you begin. Once you're walking the road, you just have to make sure that you never glance back. Never let people's incredulity, their judgement, their doubt or hate creep in.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“There's a reason why we're different. You and me. Why we're made this way. And it's for us to decide. It's none of their business.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Adrien sometimes talk and acts as if he has a hundred tabs open in his brain. Like he's giving a speech and watching a film and reading a book all at the same time. But then, when it's something really important, he focuses so hard and so fully. Gives it the most undivided attention I've ever seen.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“I actually realise that I don't care if they're all finding me strange.

They don't have what we have. And I feel sorry for them.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“There are no useless facts, Cora.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Certain places have sensory trademarks, and autism lets me feel them all.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Grown ups aren't supposed to lose it,' Adrien says coldly, throwing the stick with such force that Cerby flinches before diving after it. 'They're supposed to have it together.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“I love music. It sets everything in me alive. Every hair stands out on end. I feel like there's a box in my heart, a secret, hidden part of myself. I keep so many things locked inside that box so that no one else will ever see. And when I listen to music, alone in my room with my giant headphones on, the box flies open and all of the colours spill out and somehow merge with the music. I love the feeling. All of my masking and my reservations leave and the hidden parts of my soul come out.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“I don't think about Pomegranate often anymore. I've said all I need to about it. Now I just live my life. With my best friend. We go to the cinema. We look up at the clouds. We go to watch his Uncle Max and his airplane. Adrien flies in it now that he's well enough. And Pomegranate is a distant memory. I choose to think of better things. Of Mum. Of Alan Turing and his incredible invention. Of Dad and Gregor. Of Ria and her new career. Of Adrien and his terrible jokes. Adrien and I walk the lonely road together now. It's not lonely anymore. I'm not alone. We laugh most of the time now, I've noticed. We spend hours after school working on the paper in the garden. Next to the vegetable plot. I love to eat what we grow there. I've had enough of bad fruit.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Because the minute you find out what makes you different, the minute you love it and accept it and say you wouldn't change who you are, that's when you become dangerous.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Don't let a condition define you, son."

"Okay, Dad," Adrien says sarcastically. "I won't let my brain, you know—the most important, central organ we all have—I won't let that define me. I'll be defined by my pancreas instead.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“I put my headphones on. I let my favourite songs wrap around me like old friends. The music acts as a soothing balm after a lot of stimulation.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“We're neve supposed to say anything even a bit mean about the dead, we're supposed to remember them as perfect — but no one is perfect.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Mum once said, when she was alive, that boys were mean to girls because they liked them. I thought that was the most revolting thing I had ever heard, and I know it's not true of the boys at school.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are