Aimee Walker
A woman woke up from having her tonsils removed and was shocked to find she had a different accent.
Angie Yen, from Brisbane, Australia, discovered she sounded ‘very Irish’ when she went to sing in the shower after the operation.
The 27-year-old told News.com.au: “When I started singing, I was singing in a different sound and also talking words in a funny accent.”
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Shocked, the dentist decided to ring one of her friends and see if anybody else could hear the new voice.
It was then that she heard about Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), as the friend had seen someone else experience it on a YouTube video.
The next day, Yen went to the hospital to get an official diagnosis. However, as she was showing no other signs of being ill, she was discharged and sent home.
The dentist explained: “They couldn’t do anything, I was normal. I just sounded different and [they said], ‘you’re still healing from your surgery so maybe your vocal cords are damaged’.”
The change in Yen’s voice had started immediately after having her tonsils removed, which is known to be a straightforward procedure. So when the Australian went to see an ear, nose, and throat specialist, they suggested it would probably be something that disappears on its own.
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But as the days passed, Yen knew the voice showed no signs of disappearing. Plus, she was beginning to leave family and friends gobsmacked.
She added: “Most of them just laugh, my friends (at first) just are like, ‘oh my goodness it’s not real, you’re faking it’.
“But after a while, they realise I’m not joking because there’s no way you pretend in an accent for two or three days, even in a normal conversation.”
Yen has now decided to make a TikTok account to document her experience with FAS, as she believes people with the condition get treated like a ‘joke’.
“I can 100 per cent connect with them and know what they are feeling because I feel so lost because it’s so rare,” she explained.
“But I hope by using this platform to spread awareness that hopefully one day people know if you wake up with a foreign accent or a weird-sounding accent that you go straight to a hospital, there’s something wrong in your brain that needs to be looked at and it’s not just something funny that you laugh about.”
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