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hug-box

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2017/02/25 01:14 UTC 版)

hugbox

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hugbox (複数形 hugboxes)

A therapeutic device designed to apply pressure to the body of a hypersensitive person (usually someone on the autism spectrum) in order to calm them by providing grounding sensory stimulation.
- 2011, Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2011, unnumbered page:
  She [Temple Grandin] couldn't stand to be touched but was starved for affection and the safety of being contained. This need led to her clever device, the “hug box” which compressed her sides like the cattle chute it was modeled after.
- 2015, Cynthia M. Joseph, “Autism”, in Jennifer Hellier, editor, The Brain, the Nervous System, and Their Diseases, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 118:
(slang, derogatory, offensive) An environment or thing which validates or reinforces a limited set of feelings or ideas.
- 2011, "The Waif", "I Hate Activists", Oregon Commentator (University of Oregon), Volume 28, Issue 11, 18 May 2011, page 10:
  Instead, we get a bunch of hugbox panel discussions where people just reiterate the same, obvious points. Yes, rape is bad. We get it.
- 2015, Peter Heft, "Against 'Safe Spaces'", The Bullsheet (Denison University), Volume 59, Number 92, 23 March 2015, page 1:
  "Safe spaces" can be created in private or in the context of clubs of closed, tightly knit groups, but attempting to turn an unparalleled public space into a hugbox will solve exactly nothing and create a generation of crybabies.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hugbox.

同意語

(therapeutic device): hug machine, squeeze box, squeeze machine
(environment which validates a limited set of ideas かつ feelings): circle jerk (卑語), echo chamber, filter bubble, mutual admiration society, safe space

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