5/12: Weird Mental Disorders That Will Leave You Speechless (Foreign Accent Syndrome)

The 1st record of foreign accent syndrome (FAS) was accounted for in 1907 and the uncommon therapeutic condition is regularly activated by head injury, stroke or formative issues. The issue causes the sufferer to transform from their local discourse to a foreign accent.

As per the Foreign Accent Syndrome Support site, “FAS has been reported in cases far and wide, including accent changes from Japanese to Korean, British English to French, American-English to British English, and Spanish to Hungarian.”