User blog:Pandas113/Start of a story!

'Okay! So this is a story that I started writing on a whim. I never see any representation of scoliosis in the media, like ever, even though it's a pretty common thing among girls. I have it myself and had to have spinal fusion surgery when I was twelve because it was so bad. This is my take on non-idiopathic scoliosis, caused by muscular distrophy. Sorry if I get some stuff wrong, but I'm super excited to try something like this out! I'll post the rest of it soon, I swear!'

'This is basically what I'm going off of, from MDA.org. Let me know if I'm getting this wrong since I like to be smart with my writings.'

Ullrich CMD
Description: early-onset weakness, poor muscle tone; severity varies; some joints have contractures; some joints have hyperlaxity (excessive flexibility); spinal rigidity, curvature; respiratory impairment; soft skin; normal cardiac function; normal intelligence

Molecular basis: mutations in COLGA1, COL6A2 or COL6A3 genes, causing deficiency of or abnormalities in collagen 6 protein; protein normally has an anchoring function in many tissues, including the matrix surrounding muscle fibers

Inheritance pattern: dominant (requiring a mutation in only one copy of a gene to produce symptoms) or recessive (requires mutations in both copies of a gene to produce symptoms)

Alright, now that that's over, on to the fic!

Izuku sighed, rolling his neck as he began to do his morning stretches. For some reason, it was getting harder and harder to stretch out his back as the months went on. He wanted to go to Recovery Girl for it, just in case, but two things stopped him. First, he hadn't injured himself bad enough to go back there for about two months now and he was sure that she was glad for that, and second, he just didn't think about it when he had the time. It was probably just a strained muscle or something. He would probably just ask Ojirou to give him a back massage. The tailed teen had offered him one since Izuku had massaged his tail once.

When he started his push-ups, the thought left his mind and didn't return for a good while, as it always did. Not until Kaminari had pointed out something... concerning.

"Midoriya... did your fight with All Might have some sort of lasting effect or something?"

Izuku had bent down to slip off his shoes while changing into his hero costume when he heard Kaminari's voice, looking up to meet his eyes. "Huh? What do you mean?"

The electric blonde had his head tilted to the side slightly, the t-shirt to his hero costume on his arms but not yet slid over his head. He'd been halted by what he'd seen. "I mean, when you and Bakugou fought All Might for the exams." Bakugou looked over at that, pulling on his own boots. "Hadn't Sense broken your back?"

"Uh, yeah, I think so. But no, there wasn't any permanent injury from it. Why?" the greenette questioned, turning to take his shoes off, along with his pants before pulling on the bottoms of his hero costume. The entire time, Kaminari hadn't stopped staring at him.

"Well, I think there was. Or at least, something else has gone wrong with your back, man." His expression was one of concern and thought, something that wasn't a usual on the electricity user. Enough of a change for some of the other students to stall instead of exiting the locker room. "I mean, seriously. Have you felt anything off?"

Izuku, shirtless, stood back up straight to look at his classmate head-on. "Um, yeah, a bit? It's been a bit harder to stretch lately, but nothing too bad? What's your point here? Every time I look in the mirror at my back, it looks fine."

Todoroki walked over to the resident problem child, his normal passive look on his face. "I want to see something. Bend over again, will you?"

Deciding it would be easier to comply than needlessly refuse, Izuku gave a confused nod before bending down, reaching to his toes. He wasn't able to reach them, which he was able to only a few weeks prior. His flexibility was getting worse.

"Oh, I get why Kaminari was concerned. He has every right to be," came Todoroki's voice, which only confused the greenette more when others voiced thier own agreements. Shoji spoke up, saying that he would take a picture so that Izuku could understand what was going on. "Good idea."

A shutter sound later and Izuku stood back up straight, taking the phone that was outstretched to him. "I don't see what.... hold on, what the crap?" In the picture, the right side of Izuku's side was slightly raised, like his entire ribcage had shifted. As he looked from the phone down to his chest, he realized that the left side of his chest stuck out more than the other. He hadn't seen anything like this before. "Maybe... I feel like I should go talk to Recovery Girl after class." Maybe this was the reason he was more out of breath and had a hard time stretching recently. With a promise to Iida that he'd visit with him after class, the group dispersed and each student got pumped up for the training they were having that day.

'Let me know if you guys want to read some of the fics that I've written! I can very easily copy/paste 'em on here, so I'm curious!'