There will always be something that will never remain the same in a person after surviving a stroke. Mild or severe, a stroke can bring about changes in a person such as loss of memory, loss of muscle control and such. However, there are a few stroke survivors who had changed drastically, and quite bizarrely so, once they recovered from the “brain attack”. Let’s have a look at some of the strangest stories of how people changed after surviving stroke. Alun Morgan – The man who started speaking a different language In 2012, Alun Morgan survived a stroke at the age of 81. However, upon recovering, Morgan could not remember a word of English – the language he has been speaking all his life. The words that came out of his mouth were fluent Welsh. He was 10 years old when he moved out of Wales during World War 1 and never really got the chance to pick up the language. However, as a result of the stroke, his memories of early childhood with people speaking Welsh, which had remained deep rooted in his sub-conscience for 70 years, surfaced up and now Welsh is all that he can speak.

Linda Walker – The woman who developed a Jamaican accent

In 2006, 60 year old Lina Walker lost her Newcastle accent forever after surviving a stroke. At first, her her sister-in-law said she sounded Italian and then her brother said she sounded Slovakian. There were a few who found her speaking in a French Canadian accent as well. Linda had no idea what people were talking about until her therapist played a tape of her speech. The Foreign Accent Syndrom is often caused when a small part of the brain, that affects speech, is damaged. Linda Walker, who feels as if her identity is lost and says she doesn’t the way she has changed at all.

Ken Walters – An engineer who became an artist

Walters went into a depression of 19 years when after a terrible accident that left him wheelchair bound on 1986. In 2005, Walters suffered from a stroke but this turned out to be something he badly needed. When Ken, almost paralyzed, lay on his bed with nothing but a pen and a pad, he realized that that there was a doodler in him which never really was discovered before. The stroke let him discover his artistic side and went on to become a digital artist, even bagging a job with EA games at the age of 51.