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06 Jan 2008, 8:17 pm

She did like purple, and as far as I know she didn't find any. I imagine Peter Jackson's extended editions are playing in her home quite a bit. 8)


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06 Jan 2008, 8:47 pm

This concept inevitably arouses my ire. Like other posters have said, it seems just an excuse to say,"My kid is special." What's wrong with just accepting that most kids may be special anyway,just because they are yours and you (hopefully) love them? Those traits are so vague, anyone can have them at any time.


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06 Jan 2008, 9:43 pm

This is very interesting..I went on www.auracolors.com to see what my aura colors were...and I scored highest on crystal at 12, and then blue at 10.....pretty interesting. :lol: If you have an extra 10-15 minutes, go ahead and take the test, I would be very interested to see the results....Thank you!



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06 Jan 2008, 10:01 pm

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This concept inevitably arouses my ire. Like other posters have said, it seems just an excuse to say,"My kid is special." What's wrong with just accepting that most kids may be special anyway,just because they are yours and you (hopefully) love them? Those traits are so vague, anyone can have them at any time.


Well said. We have two sons. We also went through 9 miscarriages. Every child is special. Every child is a gift.


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06 Jan 2008, 10:14 pm

There's a book out there called "Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity" by Hal Niedzviecki. It's a very interesting commentary on how being weird is "in".


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06 Jan 2008, 10:23 pm

Liverbird wrote:
There's a book out there called "Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity" by Hal Niedzviecki. It's a very interesting commentary on how being weird is "in".


Cool. Maybe that is why my students like me. ;-)


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06 Jan 2008, 10:27 pm

I used to think I was an indigo about 3 to 4 years ago (around 14-15 years old). Apparently 90% of the regular posters at this one message board I was on were also "indigos" (probably only about 20 people, all around my age). Really we were all just social outcasts with an obsession with New Age stuff and the paranormal, nowhere to go but an online message board, and a desperate need to feel special...



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06 Jan 2008, 10:58 pm

Well I didn't learn about Aperger's until my late '30's. I truly wish I'd known when I was a kid, I think it would have made so many things sooooo much easier if I KNEW, yeah--I'm different and there's a reason and here it IS. Just knowing would have helped. But since I didn't know, if this had been kicking around when I was 15 I probably would have bought into it big time. I went through a period of the "wtf am I a changeling or WHAT?" I used to watch for aura's, the whole 9 yards... of course now I know I DID see aura's... because I was having atypical migraines. I still do. Take a med for it every night, or the next day I start getting dizzy and everything around me has a flickering glow if I look at it a little bit sideways....


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06 Jan 2008, 11:16 pm

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I used to think I was an indigo about 3 to 4 years ago (around 14-15 years old). Apparently 90% of the regular posters at this one message board I was on were also "indigos" (probably only about 20 people, all around my age). Really we were all just social outcasts with an obsession with New Age stuff and the paranormal, nowhere to go but an online message board, and a desperate need to feel special...


Yeah. I never got sucked into indigo/crystal, but I think I got into star children stuff for the same reason. I built that stuff into a complicated mythology I'd already half-created half-borrowed from other stuff (which, yep, had wood-elves in it, although mine resembled dryads in some ways, but I already knew I wasn't original once I met a few other auties who did the exact same thing). There's a whole new age market out there for misfits and outcasts.


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06 Jan 2008, 11:56 pm

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I used to think I was an indigo about 3 to 4 years ago (around 14-15 years old). Apparently 90% of the regular posters at this one message board I was on were also "indigos" (probably only about 20 people, all around my age). Really we were all just social outcasts with an obsession with New Age stuff and the paranormal, nowhere to go but an online message board, and a desperate need to feel special...


Yeah. I never got sucked into indigo/crystal, but I think I got into star children stuff for the same reason. I built that stuff into a complicated mythology I'd already half-created half-borrowed from other stuff (which, yep, had wood-elves in it, although mine resembled dryads in some ways, but I already knew I wasn't original once I met a few other auties who did the exact same thing). There's a whole new age market out there for misfits and outcasts.

Our idea of indigos actually combined with the star child/starseed theory (we tended to use the terms interchangeably), with other crazy ideas like 2012 thrown in, and built what could only be described as a cult around the idea that we were "space aliens" incarnated on earth for the betterment of mankind, even though all we did was sit in front of our computers all day complaining about how no one understands us and how much we hated the "Normals"* (the term we coined for normal "earthlings") even though it was those same "Normals" whom we were supposedly here to help in the first place. And I was regrettably the cult leader. The only thing that could have made it worse is if I hadn't realized how stupid the whole things was, held onto those insane beliefs into adulthood, and went outside the internet with it (probably would have either landed me in the nuthouse, or in prison for trying to start a cult and brainwash people).
Oh well, we're all allowed to have one crazy belief system in our lifetimes (though I was also sucked into the trap of Christianity by a fundie friend when I was even younger, before getting into all the New Age stuff [and trying to get away from that was probably what led me to the New Age stuff to begin with...], so I guess I've had more than my fair share of crazy in my life). At least I got past it before turning 18, when I could have really caused some damage promoting such insanity, which is more than a lot of people can say. I could have easily became the next L. Ron Hubbard (actually, that could be kinda cool. What's better than telling people a stupid story and having them believe you?! Having them PAY you for it, stupid!). lol
I feel ret*d typing all that...

*(side note) actually, if you replace the term "indigo/starseed" with "aspie" and "Normal" with NT, I see the exact same crap going on here, and it really needs to stop because it doesn't accomplish anything...



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08 Jan 2008, 9:56 pm

Don,t we all like to belong to some sort of group!

and why we are at it, do you feel gifted children are on the spectrum. All the ones I know it seems to me that they are, I think the parents just prefer that label!


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09 Jan 2008, 3:15 pm

Hmmm....as others have said, it all seems to me like Indigo children = 'my kid is a bit weird and I don't like the disability label so it makes me feel better to call him Indigo or whatever' syndrome.

I remain to be convinced that these 'Indigos' are anything new. There would have to be substantial blood/DNA/cerebral differnce evidence which, as I understand it, is not the case. But wouldn't it be cool if it were true!!



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09 Jan 2008, 5:38 pm

rushfanatic wrote:
This is very interesting..I went on www.auracolors.com to see what my aura colors were...and I scored highest on crystal at 12, and then blue at 10.....pretty interesting. :lol: If you have an extra 10-15 minutes, go ahead and take the test, I would be very interested to see the results....Thank you!


Well, I took this test. My highest color score was green (8) followed by Lavender (7), Indigo (6) and Violet (5) The other colors were all low. The interesting thing, IMO, was the Red Overlay. It explained so much. That was at 5.


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09 Jan 2008, 5:40 pm

who thinks this thread belongs in PPR? i dont think this is "general" too spiritualistic...

we need a forum for spirituality... im not a spiritualistic person at all so this kind of stuff annoys me... would be nice if i didnt have to look at it...

but thats just my opinion


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09 Jan 2008, 5:40 pm

Amen :twisted:


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09 Jan 2008, 5:41 pm

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Amen :twisted:


Amen to who? me?


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