Posted on 02/12/2018 2:11:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Imagine going to sleep and waking up sounding British. It's a real thing, and it happened to a Valley woman who has never even left the country.
"Everybody only sees or hears Mary Poppins," said Michelle Myers, a mom of seven who lives in Buckeye.
Myers is a former Texas beauty queen who has never even left the United States.
Three times in the past seven years, Myers has gone to sleep with blinding headaches only to wake up with a different accent.
The first time it was Irish. The second time was Australian. Both incidents lasted about a week. But two years ago she went down with a crippling headache and woke up with the British accent she's had ever since.
"They send in the psychiatrist at the hospital and make sure you're not a loon," said Myers.
According to experts, she's not crazy and not faking it. She's been diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome. It's an extremely rare condition that usually accompanies a stroke, neurological damage or other underlying medical issues.
"When I was a little girl I used to always go to my mom and say, 'my bones hurt," said Myers.
She has been to the hospital more times than she can count and the stack of medical records she keeps in the house says she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
According to the Mayo Clinic, it's a disease that causes easy bruising, rupturing blood vessels and painful joints that are overly elastic to the point of easily dislocating. Best her doctors can tell, it also turned her British.
Looking back at how she used to be is difficult, Myers says. She misses the way she used to say her kids' names.
"I'm sad," she said, watching an old video of her speaking normally. "I feel like a different person. The person I am now has been through so much compared to this person."
But her outlook is positive.
She's loves spending time with her seven kids, listening to them sing and play instruments. She also likes painting, writing, and motivating people.
And above all, she wants people to take her seriously.
"Some people think it’s physiological; others think it’s psychological. People like me - we don’t care which one it is. We just really want to be taken seriously and if it is something that’s going to hurt me, help me."
So all Britts are limp-wristed?
I had a vietnam vet speaking Vietnamese. He didn’t know any. Ends up he was a sniper and it was one of his first kills. He was violently sick for three days after confirming the kill.
LOL!
they put a chip in her
(fish and chip)
So where are all the posts claiming this is proof of reincarnation?
Also, what’s her stance on Brexit?
Just “sounding British” isn’t good enough, doesn’t one know.
Was it Berrrminhgam British? Liverpooool British? Or (heaven forbid) Saarf London?
Maybe she’s from Dublin, but near the Scottish border.
Or the guy who was in a terrible car accident...ruined his left arm...leg....and left flank....He says he’s all right now.
I think so too-she’s probably got Munchausen-she needs psychotherapy, not more attention...
“Wakes up as Tom Jones”
“I always thought that a British accent was from a some kind of disease.”
Our local Walmart for over a decade had this great old Brit with a terrible Liverpool accent as one of their greeters and watchers.
After a few years, a customer told the store manager that he should fire the old Brit because of his accent.
The store manager told the customer that their Greeter was British, and she, the customer had the accent. He was a good and loyal worker, and as a manager he would not fire him.
The customer told her family members, and they told her the store manager was correct.
She and the old Brit became buddies after that without a lot personal dialog.
I can tell you right now that no victim took possession of a friend. There are angels or demons, nothing else. You either go to heaven or hell, no purgatory, no anything else. The Bible is quite clear.
That sounds like an actual case of spirit possession-I’ve heard stories about that from friend and relatives, but I’ve never seen it myself...
My wife wakes up with different personalities depending her dreams.
She should parlay her newly acquired British accent into a commercial voice gig considering all the commercials today which are being voiced by individuals with either a British or Australian accent...........
Valley woman? I hope she also woke up knowing some Frank Zappa lyrics.
Yep, “Ah don feel no weeeyz tarrred, ah come to faaaah...” I don’t how black people can listen to that and not realize she is patronizing the living F out of them. This is a woman who called KKK recruiter Robert Byrd her mentor, who said black males are “super predators who need to learn to heel” and these idiots are clapping along with her like trained seals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-H9BOIYhgc
Nice story.
And extremely smelly...
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>> “She has been to the hospital more times than she can count ...” <<
And therein lies the source of the problem, I’m sure!
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