And the head surgeon replied: "Oh, that's just Prince in the operating theatre!"
Posted on 03/15/2013 5:36:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Bojana Danilovic has what you might call a unique worldview. Due to a rare condition, she sees everything upside down, all the time.
The 28-year-old Serbian council employee uses an upside down monitor at work and relaxes at home in front of an upside down television stacked on top of the normal one that the rest of her family watches.
"It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal," Danilovic told local newspaper Blic.
"I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."
Experts from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been consulted after local doctors were flummoxed by the extremely unusual condition.
They say she is suffering from a neurological syndrome called "spatial orientation phenomenon," Blic reports.
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I’m not understanding why she would need to make adaptations in her life (turning tv or monitor upside down). I would think that her brain has been compensationg for her condition and for her everything is normal.
I don’t think my wife learned to write mirror writing, I think she just one day realized she could do it and do it just as easily as writing normal to her.
I think it was just something she was born with. She was intelligent but not the way I think of it. She made nothing but straight “As” in college except a single B in a P. E. course. Her final GPA was 3.97 and they didn’t give extra credit. In other words you could not get anything higher than an A or 4.0. Some schools allow you to make better than perfect by doing some extra work.
As I said she was intelligent but I always beat her in ability tests. For instance, I scored 98.6 on the FEE, while she scored 89. Unfortunately I barely got out with my Bachelors Degree with a 2.2.
Agreed. The upside down monitor and TV doesn’t make sense.
The startling case of "chimera" that I recall was a woman who became involved in a child custody conflict and failed a DNA test, indicating that she was not the mother of her children. There had been people present at the birth, I think, who swore to her maternity. Nevertheless the government was prepared to take away her children.
Later more exhaustive testing revealed that the cells in her body had different DNA depending on location in the body. I don't recall any explanation other than absorption of a fraternal twin.
Ctrl + Alt plus Up or Down Arrows do that to your computer screen. Sounds like the docs grabbed her in the wrong places when she was coming out of the womb. LOL.
“There was a person who after neurosurgery started asking questions like, “Where’s the purple smell coming from?” True story.”
I’m not sure what a “purple smell” would be, but if you say “brown smell” people get the idea. :)
And the head surgeon replied: "Oh, that's just Prince in the operating theatre!"
How can they tell? If she’s been that way since birth, it’s completely normal to her and she’s completely adapted. If she drops a rock, it still moves from her hand to the ground, the way she sees it.
It’s as if my red is your green - maybe it is, but who can tell?
Grab that whip!!
There has to be a penis joke about this out there somewhere.
Try The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat....first.
My older kid could read things upside down, just like this lady.
She's a natural for driving in Australia:
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