Yeah, that was so disappointing for me, too, for related reasons. There are so many different ways that they could have handled it.
I have a speech impediment...I have difficulty forming certain consonant sounds. S and th, l and y, they come out kind of blended if I'm not careful. I had like seven years of speech therapy, from kindergarten all the way through elementary school... I can speak without thinking about it the vast majority of the time. If I'm nervous? If I'm scared? If I'm overstressed? I start stumbling over those sounds again.
"I have severe social anxiety but Glee helps!" or "Knowing that I'm accepted makes me worry about it less, and that makes me stutter less!" would both have been ways they could have handled the same basic concept. Neither approach probably would have been handled perfectly, but this is the thing about being a "progressive" show: progress is progress.
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I have a speech impediment...I have difficulty forming certain consonant sounds. S and th, l and y, they come out kind of blended if I'm not careful. I had like seven years of speech therapy, from kindergarten all the way through elementary school... I can speak without thinking about it the vast majority of the time. If I'm nervous? If I'm scared? If I'm overstressed? I start stumbling over those sounds again.
"I have severe social anxiety but Glee helps!" or "Knowing that I'm accepted makes me worry about it less, and that makes me stutter less!" would both have been ways they could have handled the same basic concept. Neither approach probably would have been handled perfectly, but this is the thing about being a "progressive" show: progress is progress.