Sequel to "Going Through the Paces". More lighthearted and age-appropriate. As Hearth's Warming Eve approaches, Misty Meadow returns to lend her friends a hand in preparations...but soon finds out she has her own special challenge to overcome when ponies begin discriminating against her condition.
This story is a direct follow up to "Going Through The Paces". Normally, I'm not one for focusing too much on OCs...but, once again, she was the most appropriate character for this fanfiction. This is another issue that I have dealt with and have seen others had to deal with out of ignorance and callousness by other people. I got the idea writing the first fanfiction, and I felt it deserved to be touched on. Since MLP is also about dealing with allegories for real life issues such as this one, I figured it was more than appropriate. Unlike "Going Through The Paces", everyone is more in character and the story is "lighthearted" enough to mesh with the show more perfectly, in my opinion. I hope it ends up being more enjoyable.
The image I am using for the illustration is a royalty-free image free for use on the web.
Just as well done as the last one, if not better, i love your style of writing as well as the interactions of the characters, the personalities of the Mane 6 also spot on and behave as they would in the show.
Misty's also a very well developed character, she fits in well with the Mane 6.
Upvoted, faved and followed because i'd love it if you made more stories with Misty in it. Please write more about her, she's gotta be one of the better OC's i've seen on this site.
Thank you very much for the kind comments about Misty. I'm glad you enjoy her. But...I probably won't write any more about her unless inspiration hits specific to her character. To be honest, I was very afraid writing this one that she was becoming a Mary Sue with how she was just able to help the girls with all of their problems in minutes.
Ok, these two stories deserve far more recognition. I'ma share them around.
You know, as an aspie myself I pegged Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie as "Most Likely to be on the Autistic Spectrum." Just trivia.
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Same here in terms of being an Aspie. (I used to think it was "Ass-Burgers" myself... :P) The one character I know from media who I definitely think has Asperger's Syndrome, however, is Osaka from "Azumanga Daioh". That one episode where she and Sakaki-san are sitting on the beach and, out of the blue, she just starts talking about how words in Japanese dictionaries are spelled differently between authors...and I just nodded at the screen:
"Yeah...that's me."
Much of Misty's behavior (more so in "Going Through The Paces" as opposed to this one) was based on my own real life experiences, so I hope I didn't end up "stereotyping" anyone by generalizing her based on my own experience
This story and the one before it are two of the best representations of what it means to have aspergers. I didn't know that I had aspergers for most of my life. I really only figured it out in the last three years, but just knowing was such a weight off my shoulders. I always thought I was just weird, or different and that I would just be one of those people who had only one friend and spent most of their time alone. I thought I had learned to just be happy with the way things were, but then I grew up and got a job and realized that no matter what I wanted, it just wasn't possible to completely shield myself from the world. Things started to fall apart after that and I ended up depressed and suicidal. It wasn't until I got treatment and therapy for the depression that the subject of aspergers syndrome even came up. Suddenly, everything made sense. I wasn't trapped forever, I could actually DO something about it, I could learn new ways to adjust, I could go into situations knowing how I might respond, I could take medicines and let people know beforehand to lessen the effects. It's not something that ever really goes away, even with meds and therapy; I'm always catching myself slipping and then reign myself in. Even though it's been only a few years, I can look back on my life with fresh eyes and recognize the good parts even more clearly and look forward to good things in the future. Thank you for these stories. Most people won't ever really know what it's like, but as long as they can understand that it's not our fault, that we don't want to be this way and be willing to meet us in the middle, just like Twilight does in these stories, then I think that more people won't have to feel the hopelessness that I did.
This was really good as well!. Reading the comments, I completely understand why you might not want to write anymore about Misty. I feel like my OC's become a bit too much like Mary Sue's at times too. Thank you for writing such great stories