After corresponding with someone on another forum recently they brought up the subject of Indigo children, thinking about this and also other topic I posted about "Close my eyes and see anything.....amazing patterns of color and light..." was thinking could be a link, especially as characteristics of both, Indigo Children and Asperger children are very similar.
The following characteristics are said to identify Indigo children:
1. They come into the world with a feeling of entitlement, which is often reflected by their behavior.
2. Self-esteem is a big issue; they often decide to stop talking all together when upset or stressed.
3. They have a connection with authority and understand things that many people never could.
4. Many times they will feel the need to add creativity to their life. (Many are musical)
5. They often see better ways of doing things, and tend to be non-conforming.
6. They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind or people they can heavily trust.
7. They are typically shy and normally always quiet unless something is brought up they disagree on.
Other claims include psychic abilities; empathic, spirit communication; 'multidimensional awareness'; immunity to diseases such as HIV, and more. None of these claims have been experimentally verified.
For more on this Click on Indigo children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_chi ... rnal_links
Intuition, sense of knowing !
Speaking with other Aspies and thinking back myself I feel Aspies may have better sensory vision, gut feelings than the norm. My family for one are far from the norm, growing up knowing I was different somehow, other Aspies have also told me, they just grew up accepting their families were different.
But what really got me thinking was last night my son said goodnight to me, when he was fast asleep. This is something he will often do and thinking back my sister would sit me up as a child when asleep and talk with me, this she found very amusing. She said I would talk to her like I was awake and understand everything, but was in fact fast asleep.
Still today use my gut feeling, sense a lot. Always seem to prejudge other people and know if will get on with them within minutes. I also know at times what people are about to say before they do. Drives my husband crazy, as he can start to say something and I just stop listening, and when he says he has not finished telling me something, I usually reply yes you have, this is what you meant, right of course. Bad habit of mine being right to often!
I also often hear aspie people saying they talk to themselves, it’s something I still do. I’m not crazy, never taken an anti-depressant and do not think anyone else is there. I just think by talking out loud, helps overload of information in my head. Because it can be hard talking to the norm at times, as they do not always want to listen or understand. I have also heard of youngest getting quite worried by this, but feel it’s quite a common thing.
or could it just be:
The generation of meaning is the most fundamental process of the mind. It underlies all major mental functions, such as intelligence, memory, perception, and communication.
A Bridge Between Mind and Matter - By Christine Hardy
To read part of this book click on link below, gets you think!
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=4568 ... he+Bridge+
Between+Mind+and+Matter&sig=8ezGRDAIlNgYlDRiNJqCmHSpM9o#PPP1,M1
It really does interest me, but do not know the answers.... but more than likely seems like these children have been given an alternative name for being on the spectrum. Maybe it was because no one knew or understood enough about people on the autism spectrum when this idea started up!
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