This Woman Collapses Any Time She Makes Eye Contact With Someone Attractive

This Woman Collapses Any Time She Makes Eye Contact With Someone Attractive

At the risk of sounding immodest, I pride myself on having a lot of skills. Unfortunately though, flirting isn’t one of them. Okay, maybe I am not half as bad as Ross Geller was on FRIENDS (who remembers him blabbering about gas?) but somehow I always get tongue-tied and end up saying the stupidest things. Once, I started talking about how my best friend and I discuss our bowel movements every morning. It’s bad, I know. However, after reading about the woman from the UK who get paralysed (literally!) every time she makes eye contact with someone she finds attractive, I don’t think I have the right to complain.

32-year-old Kirsty Brown suffers from a rare brain disorder that causes her to lose control of her body (and not in a good way) every time she makes eye contact with someone she finds attractive. According to reports, she suffers from a condition called cataplexy. It causes her to collapse anytime she sees someone attractive. We just say things like our knees are giving out because of someone’s hotness, that actually happens to her!

Cataplexy is a rare brain disorder where a sudden strong emotion such as anger, laughter and fear can cause muscle paralysis. The condition is most commonly associated with narcolepsy, a rare but extremely serious sleep disorder.

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Kirsty, who hails from Cheshire and is a mother to two, says that she can have up to five attacks a day. On bad days, it can go up to 50 attacks. She was born with the narcolepsy gene. But its onset came at the age of 9 when she suffered a head injury. Due to this, she is usually forced to keep her head down in public and avoids eye contact at all costs. Kirsty said, “It’s so embarrassing. I was out shopping once and I saw someone that looked alright, and my legs just went and I had to cling onto my cousin for support. If I see someone attractive, my legs just go so I try not to put myself in situations where that could happen, or I try to keep my eyes down for my own safety.”

Emotions like anger or laughter are the biggest triggers for Kirsty. She says that “Anger and laughter trigger it and me and my sisters are either arguing or making each other laugh because they’re the funniest people I know. I can have an attack at the top of a flight of stairs if they’re steep because I don’t like heights. I’m trying to move to a new house that doesn’t have stairs or where I can have a stairlift.”

I can’t imagine living like that. Not even being able to look at someone you find attractive without completely losing control of your body. Most of us joke about that so casually, it’s hard to believe it actually happens to someone. But hey, you have to admit, it’s a little bizarre!

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Mitali Shah

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