Definition of allergy
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Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are various conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment. For example, a person who is allergic to mustard has a strong allergic reaction when they eat mustard.
"Allergy" and its adjective form, "allergic", are also used figuratively to refer to strong aversion or dislike towards something. A person who handles criticism very poorly can be said to be "allergic to criticism." For those of you who are into Pokémon games, you can think of a psychological trigger as being akin to a type weakness. Geodude and its evolutions Graveler and Golem, being Rock/Ground, are damaged by Water- and Grass-type attacks for four times the damage they would normally take. Similarly, one of my biggest triggers is when a seemingly quick and trivially easy task or search that should have plenty of results ends up being nearly impossible and has few or no results instead. Another big trigger (allergy) I have, that is also pretty universal to a lot of people, is being wrongly accused of acting badly, and then when we try to explain that we had no ill intentions, the other person misinterprets this as "a bad attitude" and mislabels it as further "evidence" that we had bad intentions when we did not.
When Jared Hipsman, a former League School student, was twelve, he used to be allergic to the word "Thanksgiving." On November 28, 2011, the day students returned to school after Thanksgiving break, someone innocently asked him how his Thanksgiving was. On the first school day after Thanksgiving, it's pretty common to ask students, "How was your Thanksgiving?" Jared, getting very irritated by this word for personal reasons, bolted from the room in anger, punching the walls in the hall until he got to the school's time-out room, intended as a quiet space for students to calm down before rejoining their class. Catherine Petringa, one of the teachers, informed one of the staff members: "Hi, so apparently, his trigger is when someone says the word 'Thanksgiving.'"
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