Stressed woman thought she was French

Ananova ^ | December 12, 2006 | Staff

[muawiyah]

There's definitely a lot of Susac's Syndrome loose in the top rungs of the professional federal bureaucracy, and now the House of Representatives leadership.

[SampleMan]

But the effort was great and I eventually gave up.

On the contrary. If you gave up, you are French.

[Ditter]

Yes, you are right, you can always find someone worse off than you. (A NYer SHUDDER)

[LongElegantLegs]

That's a Texabotomy; if you live here for more than a year, They track you down and inject Lone Star and Shiner Bock directly into your brain.
Thank god They haven't caught me yet...

[freedomlover]

She said: "It was a really tough time for my family. At one point my sister discovered I had phoned all my friends and told them to come and visit me in Paris. She had to ring them all back to explain what had happened."

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That sounds familiar except French wine was involved.

Not that I would know.

[Perdogg]

I thought I was Swedish once. I got up one morning and decided to wear socks with sandals.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Should we send, perhaps, a "Get Welsh Soon" card?

[Hegemony Cricket]

"There's definitely a lot of Susac's Syndrome loose in the top rungs of the professional federal bureaucracy, and now the House of Representatives leadership."

Yes, but they don't suffer from it - the rest of us do...

[Oberon]

The local army depot reported that she showed up and surrendered to them on seventeen separate occasions...

[The_Victor]

There was a time when being nuts didn't have a named syndrome.

[teenyelliott]

I don't think the syndrome makes everyone think they are French. That is just the form it took with this particular woman, as she had spent time in France.

[Dan Middleton]

Words and Music by Joe Ely


My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She plays a spanish guitar
At the coffee bar
She's takin' self-defence
My Baby Thinks She's French

She like the rose perfume
In the afternoon with her chocolate mints
She thinks she's French she likes to kiss and kiss
Her Flame is hard to Quench!

My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She drive a citroen car
She sings me Ooo wa wa
She's prone to accidents
My Baby Thinks She's French


Well its Paris this
And its Paris that, it makes me cringe
She thinks she's French she likes to kiss and kiss
Her Flame is hard to quench!

My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She reads Madamoselle
and when the clock strikes twelve
she wants to give me a pinch.....
My Baby Thinks She's French

She's a Texas doll
She likes shopping malls where the mood is French
With a southern drawl
They say come back y'all
and they never even flench!

My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She wants to start a fire
In the Eifel Tower
She's lost all common sense!!
My Baby Thinks She's French


She likes the Moulin Rouge
when the sun shines thru
she seldom squints....

she breeds magnificence

[ikka]

She had been in France four years before becoming one of only four people in Britain, and 200 in the world, to be diagnosed with Susac's syndrome.

And how many of these French wanna-be's work at the US State Deparment?

[Vanders9]

Oh yeah thats terrible!

[martel]

God, what a dilema. You wake up one morning to find out you've surrendered.....but you've no idea to whom or why.

[Mr. Silverback]

Should we send, perhaps, a "Get Welsh Soon" card?

Rimshot!

[Dont Mention the War]

I am astounded that there is an actual mental disorder in which someone believes she is French. Is there another disorder for one in which people believe they are Italians, and another for Germans, etc? Just curious.

No, Susac's doesn't make you French; Susac's just means you have encephalopathy, blocked arteries behind your eyes, and some level of hearing loss occurring all at the same time. It's the encephalopathy (essentially a catchall term for "brain damage") that lead her to be French. :)

[LibKill]

Death first!

[RockinRight]

Louise said: "It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying."

I could imagine. That's about as bad as leprosy.

[Froufrou]

~snorrfle!~ You might have pinged me, mais non, ce n'est pas le moment, eh?