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What do you think of the "Indigo Child" meme?

I am an Indigo Child.	13%	[ 14 ]
I know an Indigo Child.	0%	[ 0 ]
I believe that Indigo Children exist, but I've never met one.	1%	[ 1 ]
I believe that Indigo Children may exist, but I won't bet on it.	4%	[ 4 ]
It's not likely that Indigo Children exist, but I won't bet against it.	4%	[ 4 ]
I do not believe that Indigo Children exist, but I won't rule it out entirely.	8%	[ 8 ]
I do not believe that Indigo Children exist.	10%	[ 10 ]
I believe that Indigo Children do not exist.	10%	[ 10 ]
Indigo Children do not exist.	21%	[ 22 ]
Indigo-flavored icecream costs 5 quatloos a pint on Planet X.	21%	[ 22 ]
Other: ________________ (Please explain below).	9%	[ 9 ]

Total votes : 104

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06 Jul 2013, 5:17 pm

In my on-going search for useful Autism-related resources, I keep running into this sort of thing instead:

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Indigo Children are extant on the Earthly plane to demonstrate:

Their ability communicate in unspoken ways.
Their ability to access all facets of Divinity.
Their ability to heal the world.
Their ability to illuminate hidden realities.
Their all-encompassing perspective and awareness.
Their heightened communal consciousness.
Their intrinsic harmony with each other.
Their overall uniqueness.

There are many more such lofty and esoteric claims regarding Autistic people, virtually everywhere you can look.

[opinion=mine]

Now, while none of this is on par with "Vaccinations Cause Autism", believing in these things may inspire parents of "Indigo Children" to consider their children above the needs of "ordinary mortals" and treat them like prophets and oracles.

This is completely aside from the fact that none of these claims has any measurable basis in physical reality - it's wishful thinking, plain and simple.

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What do you think?

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06 Jul 2013, 6:02 pm

I've always found the idea of Indigo children to be a crock, plain and simple.

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06 Jul 2013, 6:15 pm

A crock that services the wants of the parent, not the needs of the child.

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06 Jul 2013, 6:17 pm

Same for Crystal, Diamond, Golden, Rainbow, and Star Children?

It's all hokum to me, too.

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06 Jul 2013, 6:39 pm

Fnord wrote:

Same for Crystal, Diamond, Golden, Rainbow, and Star Children?

It's all hokum to me, too.

Please tell me you made those up...

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06 Jul 2013, 6:46 pm

Cilantro wrote:

Fnord wrote:

Same for Crystal, Diamond, Golden, Rainbow, and Star Children? It's all hokum to me, too.

Please tell me you made those up...

No, I didn't. Someone else made these up, too: Astral, Ethereal, Iridescent, Iridium, Luminous, and Zeta Children.

It seems that no one wants to settle for "Autistic" anymore ... :roll:

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06 Jul 2013, 6:49 pm

The iridium children were brought to Earth by a comet or asteroid like the ones that caused the Cretaceous extinction and unlike the stork that normally brings non-iridic children to their parents.

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06 Jul 2013, 6:52 pm

... and the Iridescent/Luminous children?

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06 Jul 2013, 6:59 pm

The iridescent children are both from an advanced ocean-faring civilization that fares the oceans on a floating island metropolis with some oil spill blessings around it causing the iridescence due to thin film interference.

The luminous children are from another advanced civilization deep in the Earth, and they are luminous due to luminescence caused by transition metal electrons emitting photons from a higher energy d orbital to a lower energy d orbital.

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06 Jul 2013, 7:00 pm

What does indigo-flavored ice cream taste like?

After what GGPViper said about Planet X ice cream vendors, I'm not sure I want to ask for a sample.

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06 Jul 2013, 7:02 pm

btbnnyr wrote:

Did you ever write for Star Trek?

:wink:

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06 Jul 2013, 7:07 pm

Fnord wrote:

btbnnyr wrote:

Did you ever write for Star Trek?

:wink:

No, but I have often wished to write for the Weekly World News.

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06 Jul 2013, 7:12 pm

All these types of children sound like Pokemon game releases...

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06 Jul 2013, 7:12 pm

I like Duke Ellington.

So I guess that makes me "a Mood Indigo child".

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06 Jul 2013, 7:13 pm

Someone is playing games ... 3 pollsters have so far claimed to be Indigo Children themselves.

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06 Jul 2013, 7:26 pm

Fnord wrote:

Now, while none of this is on par with "Vaccinations Cause Autism", believing in these things may inspire parents of "Indigo Children" to consider their children above the needs of "ordinary mortals" and treat them like prophets and oracles. _ This is completely aside from the fact that none of these claims has any measurable basis in physical reality - it's wishful thinking, plain and simple.

...voted for 'other'

Ran into this in a quite intense way a few - o.k. more than a few - years ago. I told a white lie in a way as when I signed up my son for special ed/speech & language therapy/pre-school, the head teacher got all gushy about how he is one of 'those' children, and how I'd better learn how to treat him, handle him, etc. She made me take a book home, "to read about them". And she said it would all make sense when I read the book. Honestly did not know what to say, so I just was quiet about it. She was from Sedona. Enough said.

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