#Fun fact: I was watching a documentary on FDR and then this information smacked me in the face

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EVERYONE!!!

I know why Ridley's wheelchair bound. (Or at least I have an extremely plausible theory)

Okay so the Magic Misfits Series takes place around the 1950s. During the 1950s, there were numerous cases of Poliovirus.

Polio can cause muscle atrophy, paralysis of the legs, and most commonly affected children

This could also explain why Ridley's mother is a total health-nut and incredibly overprotective at times. The causes of polio weren't clear at that time, completely healthy children were falling ill and no one knew why or the best way to help them. Imagine having your child, your only daughter fall ill to a disease that had claimed thousands of other lives. The doctors barely have any idea of what to do to help and you're not even sure if anything can be done. Then she recovered, not fully, but she's alive and as snarky as ever. The best thing you can think of to do now is to try to protect her from anything else that might threaten her health, from allergies to the smallest specks of dust.

Honestly, it's the tiny tidbits of history that make me love the Magic Misfits more than I already do.