“Even my chuckle has changed. I feel like I’m being impersonated; I’m not myself. I feel like a clown performing for the public, with an upside-down grin. Even if they’re laughing, my grin is upside-down.
“It’s quite terrible,” she said, “since everything has changed, even my body language. I don’t know who I am; people aren’t seeing the real me. According to the NHS, Althia was also diagnosed with aphasia,
Which is a condition in which a person struggles with language or speaking. According to her, “I felt scared and confused because my brain couldn’t understand it.”
