I Have the Strangest Disease - Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

★ Be Awesome & Subscribe Now! http://bit.ly/MyCrazyStory ★ Can we hit 100,000 subs? ❤ You guys are AMAZING! ❤ ______ MY CRAZY STORY What's your story? We'd like to hear it! Send it to [email protected] and we may create an episode about it! ______ ABOUT THE EPISODE Morgan started to see and hear scary things. She didn't know what the problem was, so later she went to see the doctor. KEYWORDS: disease, doctor, family, Alice in Wonderland SCRIPT Hi, my name is Morgan. I was diagnosed with a disease I can guarantee most of you have never even heard of. When I tell people about it, they look at me like I’m crazy. Half the time they think I’m making it up. But listen to my story – and try to imagine what it would feel like if this was happening to you. You ready? Ok, let’s start at the beginning. Things got weird when I was about 13. It wasn’t a gradual change. One day I woke up, just like every other day, but everything was just…different. The first thing I noticed was my breathing. It was so loud and raspy that it actually hurt my ears. Ya know like when you’re watching fireworks and they’re so loud you need to cover your ears? That’s how my own breathing sounded. You might be thinking it was some sort of thing like asthma. That’s what my parents thought at first, when I told them my breathing sounded really loud. But they looked at me, and listened, and said it just sounded normal. The other thing is…it wasn’t just my breathing. Some colors, especially yellow and pink, seemed brighter suddenly, like, so bright that they almost hurt to look at. But on the other hand, blues and greens were so dark and muted that I couldn’t even tell the difference between them. It was terrifying. It was like the whole world suddenly became so overwhelming that sudden noises would make me cry, like I was a baby all over again. But that was all I noticed for a while: my loud breathing – sometimes I could hear my heartbeat too, and it sounded like a drum in my chest – and the different colors. In hindsight, knowing everything I know now, those changes weren’t so bad, and I could function pretty normally. I didn’t know it then, but it was going to get much worse. One night, we’re sitting at the dinner table when all of a sudden, I noticed that my family, and the table, and everything ON the table - everything except for me – was shrinking. They became tinier and tinier. I couldn’t believe my huge hands weren’t crushing the table! I took up the whole room! I freaked out and started crying. Mom and Dad had no idea what was going on, because obviously the table wasn’t actually shrinking. They sent me to bed early, saying I was just tired and needed to rest, but I heard them talking in the hallway about sending me to the doctor. I was petrified. I was afraid they thought I was crazy. Heck, I thought I was crazy! So the next day we got an appointment. At this point, the symptoms would just wash over me in waves. One minute everything would be almost normal, and the next, the world was so loud and bright and overwhelming that I just wanted to curl up in the dark. My doctor confirmed that my heart and lungs seemed just fine, and I didn’t have any kind of fever that would cause me to hallucinate. “Have you eaten anything strange recently?” No, I haven’t. “Have you had any trouble sleeping?” Just since these symptoms started. “Are you experiencing any of your symptoms right now?” YES, your voice is as loud as a foghorn and your stethoscope is so big it could cover my whole body! I tried to say no, but his voice was so loud it made me wince. He wanted someone else to take a look at me too, so he referred us to a neurologist. Mom explained that a neurologist was a brain doctor. He got us an emergency appointment – yep, they definitely thought I was crazy. My symptoms were so bizarre, we got an appointment with the neurologist the very next day. Dr. Adams was a quiet, gentle woman, and when she put a reassuring hand on my arm, I immediately felt less anxious. “So, Morgan, I know a little bit from your doctor … but could you tell me in your own words what’s been going on?” All of a sudden, I felt like crying again, but I held it together. I told her how one morning I’d woken up, and everything had been LOUD, and how some colors were suddenly super bright but others were so dark I almost couldn’t see them. And how now, some things would suddenly shrink, and others would grow, and sometimes time seemed to go super fast or incredibly slow. “Are any of those things happening now?” “Yes.” “Could you give me some examples?” “This corner of the room where we’re sitting is normal size, but that corner,“ I pointed, “Is so tiny that it looks like the corner of a dollhouse.” “Morgan, that doesn’t make any sense,“ Mom started, but Dr. Adams lifted her hand to cut her off. “It makes complete sense to me, Morgan.