Michelle Myer’s accent has gone, global but she’s never left the country. The Arizona woman said she has gone to bed with extremely bad  headaches and awaken up speaking with a foreign accent.

At some points, Australian and Irish accents have unexpectedly flown out of her mouth; Myers said they last about two weeks then disappear.

Myers has been diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome. The disorder typically occurs after strokes or traumatic brain injuries that damage the language center of a person’s brain.

Sheila Blumstein, a Brown University linguist wrote a extensively on FAS. She said sufferers typically produce grammatically correct language, unlike many people who have a stroke or brain-injury. She also told about a woman who fell down a stairwell, rattled her brain, and awoke speaking with a Russian like accent.

The condition was first documented in 1907, when French Neurologist Pierre Marie surveyed a Parisian man who had a stroke and suddenly spoke with an Alsatian accent. Myers told  a British tabloid that she found her condition “Really difficult to begin with  people would think it was a joke. Myers said. “It was hard, because I was really struggling. I have come to terms with the fact I might sound like this forever and i have realize it’s part of me now.”