Let me tell you, I 100% get
what you're saying about getting caught up in the system
where you have to pay $150 supervision fee,
which you don't have, and we're gonna see
if we can't help you with that because...
(applause)
I'm all about the unification of family.
Thank you so much. Fair enough,
so cross that off, okay.
(applause)
Now, this Foreign Accent Syndrome,
do some people think you're just making this up?
I do.
What?
I do.
You think she's just making this up?
I do.
I don't, by the way.
One day she had on her social media
that she was practicing for a role
of a girl with a British accent.
Right. Couple weeks later,
she said she fell,
she hit her head, and now she's talking like this.
You can't go to an ER, have a CT,
and them say okay, you have Foreign Accent Syndrome.
You have to go through all these tests.
Yeah. And I went through that.
And I explained that to her and my sister.
Can you, with effort,
speak in your
normal, lifelong accent?
I can try, but most of the time,
I mean, even when I'm singing,
I have to push past the accent.
I understand.
I am originally from Hampton, Virginia.
I mean, that's kinda what I sounded like before.
Let me define Foreign Accent Syndrome for you.
Okay.
Foreign Accent Syndrome is a speech disorder
that causes a sudden change to speech
so that a native speaker is perceived to speak
with a foreign accent.
They're not actually speaking with a foreign accent.
It's a speech disorder. Mm-hmm.
And what happens with the speech disorder
is if you've had a brain injury,
or you've had a stroke, then it can change
the speech patterns. Okay.
In such a way that there are certain consonants,
there are certain vowels, there are certain utterances
that are altered
in a way that mimic
a foreign accent. Mm-hmm
And it's kind of a gestalt.
The listener
fills in the blanks and bridges,
and it sounds like a foreign accent,
and there are four different reasons that it happens.
I know you're not buying this yet,
but let me--
(laughter)
No, I'm not, because I got more to tell you.
Yeah, okay, I understand, but let's talk about this.
There are four reasons that this happens, what you're
seeing here happens. Okay.
One is neurogenic, and this occurs
after a central nervous system damage.
Okay, there's been something that's happened
to the central nervous system.
There's developmental, and this applies when the accent
is perceptible as of an early age,
and then there's psychogenic.
This is psychologically induced, and it's
associated with a psychiatric disorder
or clear psychiatric traits,
so someone
starts to believe they're somebody else,
and then the fourth is mixed,
and that's when the Foreign Accent Syndrome,
patients develop the disorder
after neurological damage,
but they will actually start modifying it.
They'll go with it so much
to enhance a new persona, so there's a mix
between neurological and psychological that goes together.
Tia says not only does she has this accent,
that now that she could speak, what is it,
Arabic, Chinese...
German.
Sign language. Sign language.
Everything, I mean she can speak to fairies.
I mean, you know what I'm saying?
Tia, we have it on tape.
You said that. That I could speak
to fairies?
That's a little, no.
You actually said it. Yeah.
I guess you were manic. Then you said
you were a fairy.
I never said I was a fairy.