Another "Indigo Child" Thread

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Anytime I've met parents of said "indigo child", they were all crazier than a opossum in a pillowcase.

It should be -parents who desperately need to feel special and live through their children.

Included in this group are

-my child will be the next (big deal athlete name)
-my child is the next (insert famous musician/singer/entertainer)
-my child is (the next big deal thing)

A good 95% of the time, the kid isn't. The kid is smart and talented (maybe), but not scary talented or smart. Not Moazart or Bill Gates, but god how to those parents pimp that idea around.

I've met truly gifted and talent people. They nor their parents don't need to fill you in on their gifts.

The Indigo Child stuff drove my pediatrician friend bonkers a few years ago. He hated handling those parents. Living in the MidWest, woo woo type trends don't last long around here.

I'm not religious, so to believe in an indigo child is a huge stretch anyway.

*looks at dear kid

-you an indigo child?

-mom, shut up.

Won't be save the world from this corner of the world. Lol...

If you believe you are an IC, that's okay by me. I have the same reaction to any formal religion or spirtual practice. I'm not singling you out.

That's very sad. You always expect to be disappointed again, so you protect yourself by never believing anything at all. You can not even accept that there are biological differences in autistics. You became disillusioned with the supernatural, and at the same time anything that was exciting or magical to you. You are lumping in real science with pseudoscience and the supernatural in all your rants. You are special. As is everyone else. There's never existed a Fnord before you. There will never be another. That's the real kind of specialness that is much more important than any supernatural nonsense.

I've already given my opinion of indigo children here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt229430.html
This is also relevant:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmRbSX8Rqo[/youtube]

I actually chose the "Indigo Children do not exist." option here. It's a bit odd to say that rather than "I don't believe Indigo Children exist", given that I'm a scientist and I have to always leave room for doubt, but here I think I can be confident in saying they do not exist. This isn't because of some huge amount of evidence against it; it's just that the definition of "Indigo child" is too vague to describe a concept that is measurably different from the concept of children in general. If you're going to make a case for their existence, then you have to start out with describing them in a way that is unique to them and making predictions that will be true only for them. This requirement hasn't been fulfilled.

The concept is so unscientific it can't even be disproven. I would like an option that says "The existence or nonexistence of Indigo Children cannot be proven," but "do not exist" is close enough for me. There are many things that cannot be proven but may be true and relevant. But when a concept can't be proven, doesn't make any predictions that could ever be tested, and doesn't change anything about how the world works, I think it is irrelevant. Not even philosophy deals with those kinds of ideas.

Where did you obtain your degree in remote pseudo-psychoanalysis, and can you get a refund?

... utter bollocks ...

You went from believing in magic (and got repeatedly disappointed, as you have claimed elsewhere) to not even believing in science. It's not that complicated.

You went from two points of data to a psychological profile.

Get off my case.

Anyway, yes, it doesn't matter. Didn't mean to offend you. I'll just keep my distance Carry on...

So..

There are no indigo children.

Only indigo parents!

Or "indi-ga-ga", perhaps.

The only real indigo child I ever saw had taken a bath in blue dye for Hallowe'en.

It didn't wear off until Thanksgiving.

Meh. I’ll pass new age chakra readings. Although, I will read a well-written astrological birth chart any day. (Not that I necessarily believe in that stuff. It's just one of those specialized knowledge things I have. Gosh, I love reading esoteric stuff. It’s so fascinating. Don’t go judging me either, it’s not like your reading obsession of sport stats is any more useful. And, might I add, understanding astrology isn’t entirely useless, you can use it to understand archaic texts and certain literary references, like Canterbury Tales or whatever… Because back in the day people actually en-masse believed in that stuff.)
Honestly, I do not believe in chakras, energy releasing gems/crystals/rocks, fairies, nature spirits, and all that stuff. Fun to read but it's all pseudo-science. In fact my biggest problem with neo-paganism/new age stuff is that they take ancient Egyptian, Celtic, American Indian, and Far East beliefs and synthesize them into one. Nooooo~ You can’t do that. That’s not how it works! Those cultures never even had contact with each other and where in existence hundreds of years apart. >.<

Just another viewpoint (or several on the same group of topics) here:

http://www.sunfell.com/indigo.htm

Any thoughts?

No need to worry; we're not going to get on your case about having a special interest that involves astrology even though you don't actually believe in astrology. Many of us have had much weirder special interests than that. I do statistics problems for fun...

Just seems a mish mash of random thinking to me.

We need a thread on how many Autistics are Reptilians next.That would cover the stare and lack of emotional response.

This is a healthier perspective. Labels tend to separate us into groups. Groups adopt each other’s similarities and tend to go to war against groups who are different. . . racial, religious, political - throughout history.

(However, being “weird” and part of a group is more fun than being “weird” and alone. )

Quite.

And yes--there is no reason to further divide "us" from "them"--there's far too much of that already.