Wednesday, 4 September 2013

MEET SARAH COLWILL AN ENGLISH WOMAN WHO WOKE UP WITH CHINESE ACCENT AFTER SUFFERING FROM SEVERE MIGRAINE

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Sounds like a joke but that seems to be the story of 38-year- old Sarah Colwill who On March 7, 2010 woke up a different person from who she was before after suffering a severe migraine. Researchers are working everyday as new and different sickness come up, she has been diagnosed with Foreign Accent syndrome
 read how bbc documentary reported it below


According to her in a BBC documentary titled"The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese
After suffering a severe migraine,she was rushed to hospital only for doctors to be left baffled after she developed a strong Chinese accent.
'It's just been such a horrible thing to go through,' she sobs in the opening scenes of the documentary.
'People automatically assume I'm foreign, for a start, then they like to try and work out where I might be from.'
There is a term for her condition..its called  Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition so rare there were just 61 confirmed cases between 1941 and 2012.

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