And an 'Indigo Child' is what?

Pseudoscientific bullshit, to be blunt.

I am interested in this subject too. I am conducting a research study to determine if there are any significant correlations. I wanted to invite anyone here to partake in this research study online at your ealiest convenience.

www.indigoresearch.org

Thanks so much,
Kate

Reading the descriptions of an Indigo Child I have a hard time understanding what an ADD and Indigo have in common.

The only time I have heard the term Indigo Child was from this girl that worked at a yoga studio. I have never left a yoga studio feeling anything but good except this one time where this girl was dismissing my ADD for her own Indigo Child diagnoses and ranting about how I need to eat 100% vegan raw and watch "What the Bleep" at least 5 times and take notes while watching it.

There was something about this girl that really, really rubbed me the wrong way and when I see her at the studio I get really out of wack and wished I did not go to yoga.

Hey throw her in the CHADD meeting I went to tonite and let her talk about her indigo children.

All those things I said about her don't seem bad but it was like her way was the only way. I love vegan food but you know what I am a carnivore. I don't like making things more complicated then they have to be. If I had to scour every label before I put something in my mouth or on my body I would go insane.

Sorry this is a total random rant. Thanks for listening.

this friend of mine keeps telling me that I am /was an indigo ...

wtf is this ????

I read the book, THE CARE AND FEEDING OF INDIGO CHILDREN by
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
I took a look at it,and I found that I could strongly relate to this
stuff. Therefore, I bought the book. The more I read it, the more I
believed that Indigo Child seemed like a label for children with
learning disabilities and AD/HD. I feel that New Agers created this
label because of the skyrocketing increase of children with AD/HD. The
problem is that the AD/HD condition is not just exclusive to children.
There has been an increase of diagnosing AD/HD in adults. Some were
diagnosed AD/HD at 60 yrs old. In 2005, I was diagnosed inattentive
type ADHD at the age of 32, and my mother told me that she can relate
to many of the symptoms AD/HD and Dyslexia. From what my mother told
me,my father seemed to have Dyslexia and AD/HD. From what I have seen
in my mother's side of the family, numerous relatives have these AD/HD
traits. Everyone of my mother's 4 halfsiblings dropped out of high
school,and my mother never even went to high school. They did find
their niches,and they did well in their careers except for my uncle
Dino has gone through many jobs but he has learned many skills. My
Uncle Eddie who is now 45 year, was always hyperactive. He was in
special ed with speech problems like me. My stepgrandmother refused to
have him medicated because both her and my grandfather were
hyperactive,and they weren't on medication. It seems that
hyperactivity runs in the family. With knowing these things, I do not
believe in Indigo generation nor the Indigo label itself. The label is
not going to help a child with problems with learning to read and
communicate as well as learn. Special education helped correct my
Dyslexic,Dyspraxic problems,and so I am a compensated Dyslexic,Dyspraxic
As for the AD/HD, I really don't think it's a problem. I honestly feel that it's an
alternative learning style that doesn't fit well with mainstream classroom,and I
feel the same about Dyslexia. I also feel that because of their sensitivity, the
wrong foods can affect them in adverse ways. I also feel that the
fluorescent lights in the classrooms can make them feel uncomfortable
and can exacerbate both AD/HD and Dyslexic symptoms. Fluorescent
lights can make Scotopic Sensitivity worse. The fluorescent lights can
make people with Scotopic Sensitivity have problems seeing black print
on white paper due to reflection of the light on the paper.

I really do believe that anybody with strong Neptune and or/Uranus
influence can identify with the Indigo. After all, it is said that
Indigos are psychically sensitive,highly imaginative,think in
pictures,innovative,independent,can be
rebellious,compassionate,empathic,intuitive,bright,strongwilled,and
sometimes self destructive individuals. Most of all, they don't fit in
the mainstream including especially traditional school environments.
That stuff is me, my mother,and my father. I have Moon in Pisces in
6th square Neptune in 3rd along with unaspected(ptolemaic,8th
harmonic,nor decliantions) Uranus which is also my oriental planet and
trine my Midheaven. I have Uranus conj Mercury/Ascendant midpoint,Sun
semisquare Mars/Uranus midpoint,and Mars in Aquarius. I have a 11th
harmonic pattern of Ascendant,Mercury,Mars,Saturn,and Uranus. My
mother has Sun in 12th trine Neptune along with Moon in Scorpio trine
Venus-Uranus conjunction. My father had Moon in Pisces with stationary
retrograde Neptune. My hyperactive entrepreneur uncle Eddie has Moon
in Aquarius in 6th house oppose Uranus which is rising along with Moon
square Neptune in 3rd. My maternal grandfather had Moon in Pisces and
Uranus oppose Ascendant. My maternal aunt Dominga has Uranus square
Ascendant along with Sun conj Neptune in 12th. My maternal Uncle Dino has Sun
conj Neptune which is square his Moon in the last degree of Cancer. He
has Mercury square Uranus. My maternal aunt Isabel has Moon trine Neptune and
Uranus trine Mercury-Ascendant conjunction.


Here are things in the book that I read that pertains to me and other
Dyslexics as well as others with learning differences including
Dyspraxia,Sensory Integration Disorder,and AD/HD as well as visual
spatial learners

page 100, Indigos may seem awkward or clumsy and may be labeled a
having delayed motor skill functioning (those are symptoms of Dyspraxia)

page 101, Talking and reading may also seem unnatural to Indigo
Children, who intuitively know that more accurate and honest
conversation is available through telepathy (speech delays/problems are early
warning signs of Dyslexia,Dyspraxia)

page 11, Indigo Children are exquisitely sensitive in many ways. They
may have been subject to taunts such as "You're too sensitive," yet
their sensitivity is a spiritual gift equivalent to a detecting
instrument. (that can be sensory integration disorder, sensory integration issues which are common in Dyslexics,Dyspraxics,and ADHDers but highest in the autistic spectrum disorders)

page 172, Because right-brained people have such acute senses, they're
easily distracted. They can hear every little click of the school
clock's hand, and the high pitch of the fluorescent lighting.
(that can be Dyslexics,ADHDers,and people with autistic spectrum disorders)

page 97, one of the reasons why Indigo Children are so good at
manifesting is because they processing information primarily through
mental pictures. They are skilled visualizers and can easily develop a
photographic memory. They think and learn mainly in pictures
(Dyslexics,Autistics,and a lot of ADHDers think mainly in pictures instead of words)

page 113, Sensitive Indigo Children aren't just affected by the
physical properties of their bedrooms; they;re also influenced by the
invisible nontangibles in their rooms. Music, lighting,and scent and
can make a big difference in your children's sleeping patterns,
moods,and energy levels.
(again....this can be sensory integration disorder,sensory integration issues
that are common in Dyslexia,Dyspraxia,ADHD, but highest in the autistic spectrum
disorders)

page 6, Indigos are highly creative children,and think outside the box.
This thinking style has created many of the world's breakthrough
inventions
(this type of thinking is in Dyslexics,Dyspraxics,ADHDers,and autistic spectrum disorders)

page171, Indigo Children, gifted children, who are labeled ADD or ADHD
and adult lightworkers are almost always rightbrain dominant. This
means that they interact with the world primarily with the right
hemisphere of their brain, which focuses upon visions and feeling and
relates to nonverbal studies such as art, music, math, philosophy,
psychology,and psychic arts. Right brain - dominant people can make
excellent writers and speakers, provided they learn how to translate
their mental pictures and strong internal feelings into the world.
(this can apply to Dyslexics,Dypraxics,ADHDers,and people with autistic spectrum disorders)

there was talk about psychic abilities and visions. I didn't get
into that stuff. Those aren't symptoms of learning disabilities. Many
learning differenced people have the common sense to keep those things
secret from people that they know that can't trust with those things
including especially psychiatrists. However; in the book,the BIPOLAR
CHILD, learning disabilities was listed as one of the common symptoms
and traits in bipolar children. Oversensitivity to environmental
influences was listed as one of the very common symptoms and traits in
bipolar children. Many children that were diagnosed as AD/HD are now
believed to have been actually Bipolar,and so its that many children
have bipolar. That's the same with adults now believed to have
AD/HD,and many AD/HD adults have talked about how their AD/HD was
misdiagnosed as bipolar. Many children are being on antipsychotic
drug, Risperdal for Bipolar. It's even used for autism.

I was a special ed student for 3 yrs in elementary school. If it wasn't for special education(motor skills therapy,auditory therapy,speech therapy,phonics training, I would always had severe problems with language processing and very poor motor skills because of my Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. I have had psychiatric misdiagnoses of psychotic,bipolar crap by psychiatrists in adulthood because they were ignorant of my Dyslexic,Dyspraxic nature. I have history of anxiety and depression. I have always have been extremely sensitive on every level too. I was referred to as being "special" by my mother and stepfather. After all, I had special needs. I was in special education. A lot of people had no idea how much I hated that word. You know how some people say "Oh..You think that you are so special!" to cut you down. They didn't know they were talking to somebody that had special needs and was a special ed student. I definitely believe that Indigo Child is just a New Age copout label for people like myself. I don't believe in the Indigo Child propaganda.
I believe that Indigo Child is an umbrella term for people with atypical neurological systems(AD/HDers,Dyslexics,Dyspraxics,other Learning Disabled,Aspergers,Autistics) like myself. They have always existed.
There is nothing new about people like us. We're the types that have been in self contained special education classes,special schools,group homes,doped up on heavy antipsychotics,gave us lobotomies,or locked us up in asylums. Our types were probably burnt at the stake in other time periods. In modern times, we just have more awareness of the diversity of neurological make-ups in people. We have a very long way to go for society to tolerate and accept neurodiversity which is shown by the skyrocketing increase of neurodivergent people on psychiatric
medications.





I have a list of books that I own and/or read about learning
differences and special sensitivities

PARENT'S GUIDE TO CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA by Abigail Marshall
THE GIFT OF DYSLEXIA by Ronald D Davis
THE GIFT OF LEARNING by Ronald D Davis
THE EVERYTHING PARENT'S GUIDE TO CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA by Abigail
Marshall
SMART BUT FEELING DUMB by Harold D Levinson, MD
A SOLUTION TO THE RIDDLE DYSLEXIA by Harold N Levinson
SMART BUT STUCK by Myrna Orensttein,PhD
THOM HARTMANN'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO ADHD
RIGHTBRAINED CHILDREN IN A LEFTBRAINED WORLD by Jeffrey Freed and Laura
Parsons
THE EDISON GENE by Thom Hartmann
DYSPRAXIA by Amanda Kirby
UPSIDE DOWN BRILLIANCE The Visual Spatial Learner by Linda Kreger
Silverman,PhD
IN THE MIND'S EYE by Thomas G West
UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPRAXIA by Madeleine Portwood
ADD and ADHD Complementary Medicine Solutions by Charles Gant MD,PhD
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF INDIGO CHILDREN by Doreen Virtue, PhD
THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE CHILD by Elaine N. Aron, PhD
THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON by Elaine N. Aron, PhD
THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON IN LOVE by Elaine N. Aron, PhD

sites on Dyslexia and other learning differences

www.dyslexia.com/

www.dys-add.com/

www.levinsonmedical.com/home.html

www.dyslexiamylife.org/dyslexia.html

www.dyslexia.tv/

www.macalester.edu/~psych/w...ndex.html

www.dys-add.com/#video (free online Dyslexia video to
watch...Susan Barton herself speaking)

www.tomatis.com/English/Ar...yslexia.htm

Raymond Andrews