In the interest of not becoming a stale repetition of myself, I'm going to watch it through, even though I too _hate_ watching things like that. BRB EDIT: Back. It wasn't as bad as I thought, but every time the timing suffered as a result of the speech issue, I felt like turning it off. It's still torture to me, this sort of thing. I also hate that because it's something personal to me, I'm relating more to this ridiculous talent show situation. I hate programs like this, I really do. I don't want to feel like it's a success to be able to participate in something like that, and I don't want to feel that this particular stutterer achieved something great by walking on stage and stutter. There was, to me, a disturbing undercurrent of pity throughout. Is that me being cynical? Dunno. I feel "hijacked", in that my own stutter is automatically connecting me to this spectacle. I don't want that. It's bad enough already watching people perform when put on the spot like this. I don't need the extra layer at all. But at least I saw the thing. And it's nice that he got where he wanted to go.