[@Dark Light] - Well the doctor involved had taken her in largely because he recognized the fact she was gifted. His efforts were to try and figure out how it worked, using her as a test subject.

If you want I can change the location from an asylum to a testing facility. In condensed summary after she learns to cope with her quirk's unfortunate side effects she uses it to scare everyone out of the asylum, which works on all except the doctor who instead chooses to try and remove her brain to figure out how it works. As long as the site itself isn't required by plot to remain inhabited it's not a hard change.

Also, a slight alteration, she loses her hands after shattering a window with them as opposed to my earlier statement. It will all make more sense when I get the background written up of course.