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Woman Suffers Headache, Ends Up With Accent

A mother of seven from Arizona wakes up with a British accent after a headache-induced nap. Headaches are not a new thing for former Miss Black Austin Texas, Michelle Myers….

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A mother of seven from Arizona wakes up with a British accent after a headache-induced nap.

Headaches are not a new thing for former Miss Black Austin Texas, Michelle Myers. In 2015 she suffered from a headache so severe it left her right eye temporarily blind, unable to move the left side of her body.

She claims the accent lasted about a week, but the same thing happened years ago when she woke with an Australian accent which also lasted a week.

After being taken to the emergency room for the severe headache in 2015, she woke up with a British accent that has been with her ever since. Weird right?

It's actually a real condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome and it usually follows a stroke or other condition that causes neurological damage.

Myers also suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome which includes rupturing blood vessels, easy bruising and painful joints. She even said the condition has changed the way she pronounces her children's names.