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Topic started on 14-3-2013 @ 02:48 PM by Lady_Tuatha
A rare brain condition that has left a woman seeing everything upside down has baffled doctors.

Bojana Danilovic, 28, views everything the wrong way up because of a problem in the way her brain processes images.



The council worker has to read papers from the bottom up, uses an upside down computer screen and needs to work with topsy turvy forms in her job. She said: "It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal. "I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."


The economics graduate from Serbia, who has suffered from the condition since birth, relaxes at home by watching one TV balanced on its top while the rest of the family watch another.



Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say she is suffering from 'spatial orientation phenomenon.'
Ms Danilovic, who works in the Serbian town of Uzice, said "They say my eyes see the images the right way up but my brain changes them. "But they don't really seem to know exactly how it happens, just that it does and where it happens in my brain. "They told me they've seen the case histories of some people who write the way I see, but never someone quite like me."

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This is giving me a headache just thinking about it! Can you imagine what it would be like? You would think that in this day and age someone would have made her a special pair of glasses that rotates what she sees? I suppose tho that she has got used to seeing the world this way. Weird.
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reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 02:55 PM by butcherguy
reply to post by Lady_Tuatha

If she was born this way, wouldn't she have learned to read letters the way that she saw them? IOW, why would she turn a newspaper upside down to read it? I doubt that she went to a special school where the alphabet was turned upside down just for her to learn?



reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 02:56 PM by Komonazmuk
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right, you'd think if all was upside down to her she'd learn to read upside down...


almost smells like some fish.


reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 02:59 PM by fluff007
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Wow

How truly bizarre that must be. But since she has had this condition from birth, how much does it really affect her.

She said: "It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal.

"I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."


It might make certain things difficult for her. But is this not the same as having any other handicap. I know that nowadays they would certainly have the technology for creating a special of glasses for her nevermind goggles..
I wonder if she gets much help.

s/f for interesting find OP


reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 03:05 PM by Lady_Tuatha
reply to post by butcherguy



I cant seem to find much about her education or schooling but I imagine she would have just had to adapt, like you say, I cant imagine teachers or professors at university writing upside down for her lol, since its a condition from birth she would have had to adapt, hard going for her id say in her early school days.
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reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 03:09 PM by tetra50
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Not at all to make light of someone suffering from a disease, but methinks she is seeing "reality" just as it is these days--everything all upside down.


reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 03:24 PM by Ophiuchus 13
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It seems like the visual photonic signal from observe input point into the eye as it transfers thru optic nerve that there may be an issue from optic nerve to brain link. For she is processing the photonic data with the more hardware the eyes and it seems the information makes it to the brain and gets processed. So it seems along the way somewhere there is an issue. 1 is not trained in these current optometrist fields of study but hopes she can find help to fix the issues she is experiencing..

NAMASTE*******


reply posted on 14-3-2013 @ 05:23 PM by Lady_Tuatha
reply to post by Wrabbit2000



very good,

She can console herself by baking a lovely upside down cake :-)


reply posted on 18-3-2013 @ 03:49 AM by VeritasAequitas
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How does she walk down the sidewalk without feeling like she's about to fall down into the sky? Lol.
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