Talk:Hurricane Fluttershy/@comment-69.171.178.91-20120326202958/@comment-70.119.239.232-20120326214346

Obviously her parents/family retrieved her. Rainbow doesn't seem the type to abandon Fluttershy after she notices she has gone missing. Other ponies may have seen her fall. And if she is in school (and quite visibly young) she must have a guardian of some sort. It is hard for me to imagine filly Fluttershy building a cottage and starting her life independently in Ponyville at such a young age with no possessions or money. Other newly-marked ponies (Cheerilee's whole class besides the CMC) all have guardians of some sort and continue to attend school. And the mane six, who are all close in age (Pinkie is only a year younger, even though she is much smaller in her flashback) all stayed as "children" for a while. It is doubtful if Applejack could essentially run the farm, let alone buck trees, at such a young age, for example.

TL;DR: It would be ridiculous to presume Fluttershy became a dropout orphan after falling.