TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. healthline.com Submitted by veety t3_10n49hk on January 28, 2023 at 2:56 AM in todayilearned 188 comments 1,609
asterierrantry t1_j690wle wrote on January 28, 2023 at 4:47 PM my aunt has this! she has had a ton of articles written about her because of it. she describes feeling an "explosion" in her brain and she switches accents regularly now. Permalink 1
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