One day I'm German, the next I'm
Scottish': Bizarre, woman who claims 'brain eruption' has left her
with Foreign Accent Syndrome
She may have
only travelled abroad twice but anyone listening to Linda Pereira can be
forgiven for thinking she's worldly.
The
50-year-old, from Atlanta, Georgia, claims to have lost her typical American accent
and now speaks with an array of twangs ranging from a Scottish to Eastern
European.
The
mother-of-three was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome after describing
what she called an 'eruption' in her brain while messaging a friend on Facebook
in October last year.
She has also
been mistaken as being from Sweden, Germany and South Africa.
Mrs Pereira,
who has documented the changes on her YouTube channel, originally hails from
San Jose, California. Describing
the moment she lost her Californian drawl, she said: 'My family went out and I
was on Facebook talking to a friend.
'It was a
rather complex topic, and in trying to reply, I felt extremely tired and could
barely keep my eyes open.'I decided to
lie down, but this didn't help, and I felt a weird pressure in my brain I
hadn't felt before. 'It was a
ball, and as I typed, my eyes and brain seemed to fuzz in and out.
'I thought it
was a result of trying to think too hard, so I went over to something funny on
Facebook with one of my friends and I started to type a reply, when I felt a
ball erupt and an electrical eruption moved throughout my entire brain.
'I couldn't
move and couldn't open my mouth.'
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