Rainbow Dash’s backstory: Living with ALS

Hey, everyone, my name is Rainbow Dash, and I live with my parents, Thunder bolt and Purple rain, in a small house in a town called RockVille Hill. Our house is located at the base of the mountain, yes you’re probably thinking how the hell do i go to school in the morning, well it’s simple really my mother drives me down the hill to school. Go to school at Starswirl’s academy for the disabled, as you can guess from the title of the school it is a school for the physically disabled and mentally disabled, oh and what’s more is I had ALS since I was eight.

This is my story:

So it all started on a nice summer day in Spring 2012 my mother went into labor at around 8 o’clock in the evening, and after she gave birth to me the doctor congratulated mother on a healthy baby girl. Then a couple weeks in the hospital later I was brought home and then my father looked at me and said “Purple this child is not mine”

“But Thunder, she is yours” my mother later told me to have said.

“No daughter of mine is going to grow up like this” father said in raged at my appearance, I was not like a normal baby my hair was all rainbow colored while my mother’s hair was light blue and my father‘s health was green.

My father left on his own, my father went to a friends house that night and brought a bottle of beer and then he had another couple bottles and another and another and another and another and so on so forth and then when he came home he went into my mother’s bedroom and without warning he did something really bad to her that to this day my mother cannot talk about especially in front of me. I often wonder what is troubling mother and I’m not sure what it is because having ALS I cannot longer talk.

My mother often sits in her room and cries for hours on end I sometimes wonder what’s bothering her but I can’t just get up and comfort her and anyways when mother was like this I sometimes wish I could talk.

It’s really tough having ALS sometimes because sometimes I cannot adjust my position, and I don’t have a computer with which to talk yet so how my going to tell mother or somebody else that I need help.

I am 12 now so I think being 12 and having the good friends that I have has given me new hope.

I have some of the best friends in the world I have Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy Pinkie Pie (Who also happens to be my aide), Rarity and Jerry. Fluttershy Twilight and Rarity have graduated. But Jerry is still in school because the teachers think he can still learn something even though he’s 21.

Normally people graduate at 18 but there are the special feel like Jerry who stay until they’re 20 or something like that, I think AJ is also 12.

My room is very nice it has pictures of the track team on the walls but I never could enter the track team because of my disability. I am not sure what I’m gonna be doing when I grow up but maybe I won’t even lived to see my own kids I don’t know. Because normally ALS patients don’t live to see their own kids, there are have a couple exceptions, like a scientist named Stephen Hawking he still alive. Actually he is kind of a role model for me he never gives up and wants more he has a team of supportive people around them to keep them alive so when I grow up I’m not gonna be a scientist because I don’t like science. Anyways my dream is one day to meet the great man. Yeah yeah I know what you’re all thinking why in the world is Dash even going to meet Stephen Hawking because I wouldn’t be able to do that.

But just trust me I’ve had dreams about him all my life since I was eight to now.

Now that I’m 12 I can do anything I want well at least my mother says I can do anything I want but I have not heard from my father ever since he left my mother when I was born. Anyways I don’t need to hear from him he sound like a bad guy.

And in about an hour Applejack is going to come over to help me I have been feeling down lately and she wants to find out why so my mother called her mother to arrange a sort of meeting. I just heard the doorbell so who she comes now I will I will get back to you when it’s over.

Hi I’m back, Applejack is still here my mother talking to her mother, sorry about yesterday I wasn’t feeling very good. I’m lying in bed right about now yeah I have to get up and go to school my mothers to drive me my mother has to get me out of bed since my father’s never home which is looking good at all actually my my mother has to do everything for me please days. Hold up I think I hear the buzzing of an electric wheelchair, I listened for a bit and then I know it was Applejack.

“Rainbow honey can ah come in”? Applejacks voice said from out side the door. I didn’t respond, Applejack has never called me honey before. She always called me sugar or sugarcube. Especially when I was down.

“OK I’m comin’ in” Applejack said. Applejack open the door I thought, I saw an angel. She looked so beautiful, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

“Hey Dash” Applejack greeted me.

“How are ya doin?” Applejack asked me after a very long period of silence.

“Well Dash, it’s almost Thanksgiving I think I’m school we are going to have a party or something like that and I don’t know about you but I’m pretty excited about that” Applejack said to me after another long period of awkward silence.

All I could muster was a small grin. Tomorrow it’s back to school and for now I’m home because my mother said I wasn’t feeling very well I don’t know what this says but I think it might be a infection or something.

Anyways tomorrow with back to school.

For now I’m staying home so I’ll see you guys tomorrow at school.

Good night, Rainbow Dash out.

Author's Note

Hey everyone I hope you will like this chapter so you took so long to write but I couldn’t come up with any ideas tomorrow’s chapter will be about Thanksgiving.

And I will also start writing in third person again