She-ra Posted May 16, 2015 #1 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Today, 47-year-old Leigh Erceg is a gifted artist and poet who enjoys spending time working on mathematical equations. But she wasn’t always that way. In 2009, Erceg experienced a traumatic brain injury after a serious fall into a ravine. But the effects of the injury turned Erceg into a completely different person. Before, she was a NASCAR-loving tomboy with no interest in math or art. Today, she’s gifted in those two areas, and has also gained the ability to experience synesthesia, which is when you can “see” sounds and “hear” colors while listening to music. But she lost one big thing in the injury: the ability to feel emotions. Read more here: https://www.yahoo.com/health/meet-the-woman-who-can-no-longer-feel-emotions-119042248662.html 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted May 16, 2015 #2 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Sad story, but reminds me a bit of Spock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted May 17, 2015 #3 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I was going to make a joke about her symptoms lining up pretty nicely with vampirism, but I know 3 people with traumatic brain injuries and it is a god aweful thing to behold. The loss of memory is terrible but the double whammy of emotions leaving as well seems to be overly harsh. And I can't imagine any recompense of enhanced abilities making up for it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted May 17, 2015 #4 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Hmm.... that explains, while visiting the Grand Canyon, I was talking with my wife and she said "You're smarter than that" then proceeded to push me off the cliff's edge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted May 17, 2015 #5 Share Posted May 17, 2015 A very sad story. Maybe she'll get better in a few years. The Brain has been known to reroute pathways, maybe it will in her case as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted May 18, 2015 #6 Share Posted May 18, 2015 so they are calling this Acquired Savant Syndrome a 'rare malady' ? How about removing accidentally the brain blockages set in by the creator ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted May 18, 2015 #7 Share Posted May 18, 2015 so they are calling this Acquired Savant Syndrome a 'rare malady' ? How about removing accidentally the brain blockages set in by the creator ? How about not? Age of stupid indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socio Posted May 18, 2015 #8 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Not to demean her experience but if the brain is capable of being altered like that it has to make one wonder if science could not find a way to tap in to it, preferably without bad side effects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted May 18, 2015 #9 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Not to demean her experience but if the brain is capable of being altered like that it has to make one wonder if science could not find a way to tap in to it, preferably without bad side effects? Start with Congress. I would suspect that the many scientists have wondered the same thing. Who would not want to be smarter, or have an almost mystical understanding of color, sounds, music, art, mathematics and so forth? If there was only a certainty of altering the brain in a positive way, but, fiddling around in a brain can cause unexpected negative results also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vance665 Posted May 18, 2015 #10 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Sounds like my dream girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollandSmith Posted May 21, 2015 #11 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I have read a similar story. There was this autistic man and he was cured from his illness when he was struck by a lightning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted May 22, 2015 #12 Share Posted May 22, 2015 one think i know for sure: smart ppl don't have a place in society . our modern society needs only brain dead consumers who can work like animals two job spending money on cell phones and entertaitment , or products that are ending up to be taxed 20 times between producer and first hand seller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted May 22, 2015 #13 Share Posted May 22, 2015 one think i know for sure: smart ppl don't have a place in society . our modern society needs only brain dead consumers who can work like animals two job spending money on cell phones and entertaitment , or products that are ending up to be taxed 20 times between producer and first hand seller. What planet is this on? It appears you don't know anything about smart people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
She-ra Posted May 22, 2015 Author #14 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I have read a similar story. There was this autistic man and he was cured from his illness when he was struck by a lightning. I would love to see this article if you can find it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMelsWell Posted May 24, 2015 #15 Share Posted May 24, 2015 One of my very best friends suffered a massive stroke when we were 23 years old. (It was later found that she has a very rare blood disorder that caused it) Prior to the stroke, she was a math genius. She acquired her her Batchelder's degree in mathematics, she had very little patience for the arts, or anything else that required any kind of "fanciful thinking" the stroke transformed her. She's now an almost savant like painter and can paint anything she's seen from memory. After recovering from the stroke, which did leave her paralyzed on her left side, she still retains her mathematical abilities, bit is no longer interested in them. She spends her life painting and working as a volunteer for a number of charitable organizations. She's definitely not the person I grew up with anymore, but as luck would have it, I like this new person too! She had the opposite reaction to her brain injury, she's more emotional now. Brain injuries are just weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legadema Posted June 19, 2015 #16 Share Posted June 19, 2015 when i was 7 i meet an accident, my temporal lobe soften and i too suffer head injuries ..,,,,zzzz but good thing happened there is no changes at all lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xYlvax Posted June 19, 2015 #17 Share Posted June 19, 2015 It is a really sad loss, but with her forthcomings she can feel how it may be.. I've lost a lot of emotion dealing with something emotionless and it taught me to be more endearing when sometimes I'm just not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nohands Posted November 30, 2017 #18 Share Posted November 30, 2017 this is greatness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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