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You sound like Steffie from White Noise by Don DeLillo.Quote:
Steffie is slightly younger than Denise, a sensitive child who, while watching television with her family, ''becomes upset when something shameful or humiliating seems about to happen to someone on the screen'' and stands outside the room while Denise gives a running commentary on the action.
—NY Times
I'd call it vicarious embarrassment.
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