Aubrey Plaza Recalls Being ‘Briefly’ Paralyzed During Unexplained Stroke at Age 20: ‘I Forgot How to Talk’

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2. Maybe if she switched “wood milk” then she might not have all that whole milk cholesterol in her brain veins.

3. I read an interview with her in Bust magazine afterwards where she pretty explicitly blamed hormonal birth control.

4. I got sucker punched in a bar when I was in college. Hit my head on concrete and ended up getting post concussion syndrome. For several months a would randomly lose the ability to speak.

   I knew what I wanted to say but there was a disconnect where it goes from the thoughts to speech. It could happen mid sentence where I would just go silent. And the harder I tried to talk the longer it would take to come back. Brain injuries are scary as hell.

5. A vestibular migraine can mimic the symptoms of a stroke, just a PSA.