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Diana de Avila (born September 22, 1965) is an artist who developed artistic abilities after worsening traumatic brain injury and a relapse from Multiple Sclerosis.

At the age of 18 in 1984, de Avila was in a motorcycle accident where her helmet cracked in half. She was dealing with other more life-threatening issues at the time and her brain injury was ignored for the most part in favor of treating deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in her leg. Although dealing with a brain injury at the time and post-traumatic headaches, she went on living her life as normally as possible. In 2001, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and eventually retired from a career in corporate. In 2017, she experienced a relapse from MS and worsening brain injury and after 2 weeks of continual headaches and vertigo, went to the ER and was admitted into the hospital with what initially was thought the be a stroke. Instead, it was diagnosed as an MS relapse "optic neuritis". Diana noticed that she was dealing with more problems with her short term memory and also felt very manic. After a two week round of high doses steroids and a steroid taper, something changed in her brain and "rewired". The rewiring happened suddenly - like a lightning strike - and she began to see shapes and colors differently. She felt that she needed to begin to create and started to delve deeply into digital art and began using complex software programs to create art.

Diana has been creating art since July 2017 and continues to create and exhibit her art. She has little idea where it actually comes from but she feels it is an external, spiritual force. In January 2020, she received a note from Dr. Darold Treffert who reviewed her case and added her to registry of Acquired Sudden Savant Syndrome.

She deals with 24/7 ringing in her ears and worsening diplopia. She has begun seeing her fractal work in 3D on backlit screens.