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Growing up with a speech impediment, Chris Jones, stylized as “chrisjones,” from Chicago, talks for a living as a hypnotist.

Jones, whose audition for “America’s Got Talent,” has been viewed more than 8 million times on YouTube, introduced himself to his teacher as “chrisjones” in fourth grade, pronouncing his name as one word.

Ever since, the pronunciation stuck.

“I still talk fast to compensate,” Jones said. “I don’t hear syllables very well. I wasn’t and I’m still not a good reader, so if I see a word I’ve never seen before, I don’t know how to pronounce it.

I don’t understand phonics and so everything for me was one word.”

Jones’s speech impediment didn’t seem to affect the show he put on for about 200 Simpson students Friday evening in the Black Box.

Many students, like sophomore Mandie Gassman, left the show with their cheeks hurting from laughing so hard.

“I thought the hypnotist was hilarious