Childhood
Jimmy was a very smart, articulate, seemingly popular, well-regarded child with a bright future and a love for athletics, mathematics, and puzzles/problem solving. They loved having friends and interacting with others, but, in reality, they didn't actually understand their peers well- and their good intentions could be easily misread as arrogant or freakish. Their family was not well-off, and encouraged their child towards success. Pushing a little too hard and holding their eldest to such lofty expectations taught the child to focus on nothing but school and extracurriculars.
Tension reached a breaking point in 7th grade (age 13) when a fight broke out between several other students, mostly bullies, and Jimmy tried to step in. After being knocked back-first into the side of a desk, Jimmy collapsed, losing immediate function of several lower functions, and was rushed to the hospital. They were quickly diagnosed with Cauda Equina Syndrome due to a herniated disc and operated on.
It would be discovered that Jimmy had been hiding severe bullying from students and some teachers and the chronic pain and continous subluxations that they had been suffering with for years. Their spinal injury was treated with surgery, but would develop post-laminectomy syndrome and finally recieve a hEDS diagnosis.
Recruitment
Jimmy was taken out of school for a year while they were recovering and recieve therapy for newly-diagnosed autiADHD and OCD. They developed social anxiety and would eventually refuse to return to public school and began to attend schools for physically disabled children, though they were plagued with chronic pain, especially in their spine.
Following their extensive mathematical and problem-solving abilities being discovered, they were selected from their school and recruited with the addition of recieving a spinal cord stimulator implant to help manage their pain.
