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She Woke Up With A Completely Different Accent: The Bizarre Story of Australia's Angie Yen

What would you say if I told you, you could wake up with a complete foreign accent one morning?

You would probably call me crazy.

But that’s what happened to 27-year-old Angie Yen from Brisbane, Australia. 
Angie underwent an operation to get her tonsils removed. Ten days later, on 28th April 2021, she found herself singing in the shower with an Irish accent. She had nothing to do with Ireland, never even visited the country in her life. She was born in Australia and always spoke with an Aussie accent.

27-year-old Angie Yen from Australia

Angie was perplexed. She made a video speaking in her newfound accent and posted it on TikTok. The video titled I woke up with an Irish accent #Sendhelp went viral.

You can watch her viral video below:



People responded, equally perplexed and bewildered by her claim. Most users accused Angie of faking it for attention, while the rest were having a good laugh.

But Angie knew she was not faking it. Feeling her identity is lost and facing ridicule from people online, she sought the help of medical experts.

Angie was diagnosed with what is known as Foreign Accent Syndrome. It is a very rare form of brain disorder triggered by neurological or psychological damage. Foreign Accent Syndrome distorts a person’s native speech and makes him sound like he’s speaking in a different accent.

31-year-old Kate Baggs from Australia
 

Angie is not alone. In Australia itself, 31-year-old Kate Baggs from Darwin started speaking in an Irish accent after suffering a rare form of migraine in 2019. In Kate’s case, her accent shifted to Irish, mid-sentence, while she was speaking.

Kate and Angie met on 60 minutes Australia.
 

Angie and Kate recently met on 60 minutes Australia where they both got emotional seeing each other.

Kate said, she too, has been accused of faking the accent and understands what Angie is going through.

Neuroscientists ran scans on Angie’s brain and found neurons firing abnormally in the language section, which could be the reason for her Irish accent.

There have been 100 cases of Foreign Accent Syndrome all over the world since 1907. In 1941 Norway, a 30-year-old woman named Astrid started speaking in a German accent after a head injury. Unfortunately for her, Norway was under German occupation in those years. People were not very kind to her as they thought she was German. She had to stop speaking outside her home altogether to keep herself safe.

Linda Walker, from Newcastle, UK, woke up in a hospital after a heart stroke in 2006 and sounded Italian to her sister-in-law, Slovakian to her brother, and French or Jamaican to others.

The condition can last months, years, or might stay forever.

Angie has not been advised when her Aussie accent will be back if it ever will. She is currently undergoing speech therapy.

 

 

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