Once upon a time we were called the Indigo Children generation. Psychics and teachers of a new formation, without prejudice, following a certain Nancy Ann Tapp, said that it was among those born in the 70s or 80s that there are many special children and that our generation is destined to do something special: either to save the Earth, or to be the only ones on Earth, who will be saved when she gets bored and she throws off humanity.
Indigo children were credited with the ability to predict the future and see the past, read each other's thoughts, as well as attachment to a certain True Universal Knowledge. From the TV screens, our peers now and then portrayed the inspired and luminous Nostradamus or gave out some Sacred Truths.
Deforestation is very bad! Soon our planet will be left without forests. And then we will have nothing to breathe! The Earth whispers this warning to me when I go to bed, and asks me to convey it to people!
Funny memories of the funny nineties. Many people think that the hysteria around the children - the messengers of the Universe - remained somewhere there along with the water charged by Chumak and the general fashion for newspapers about the life of the yeti and werewolf janitors. However, this myth is more alive than all living things. Some moms want a special baby. Others have a special child, but they do not want to admit what it is. What qualities indicate that your child has an indigo aura?
- Early intellectual development
- Unusual seriousness
- Huge self-esteem
- Disregard for social conventions, rules of behavior
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- Unusually early manifestation of a creative (poetry, drawing) or mathematical gift
- Vulnerability, hypersensitivity, anxiety; frequent nightmares, strange phobias
- Strong imagination, highly developed fantasy
- Unconventional thinking
- Interest in certain global things, a tendency to talk about wars, ecology, the human soul
- Inability or unwillingness to lie even in small things
- Strange reverie, sometimes lasting for hours, absent-mindedness
- Amazing independence of judgments and actions, intellectual and emotional detachment from parents
- Weak interest in communication with peers, apart from other Indigo Children
- Household and social inability - Indigo children are not up to such trifles, so they can not learn to tie shoelaces even by the age of fifteen
Educators and neuropsychiatrist claim that the qualities of Indigo Children always have a very mundane explanation.
Nervous system labilization at an early age
Sometimes the parents do it themselves. A hysterical mom and an aggressive dad have not made anyone's nervous system stable yet. Sometimes the TV copes with the parents. Psychologists have long argued that prolonged sitting at the TV box leads to slowed down intellectual development. In fact, it's a little different. Many children suffer from emotional and social development rather than intellectual development. But worst of all, the baby's nervous system does not cope well with the flow of visual and audio information and the large number of emotions it evokes. She literally blabs it out. The child may become overly impressionable and sensitive. It sometimes helps in learning, but it gets in the way in life. Hypersensitivity turns into tantrums, panic attacks, high anxiety in general, rapid fatigability,ADHD and even neuroses and clinical depression.
What should be done: show the child to a doctor and a psychologist. There, most likely, the first thing they will register is the regime. Not only the day, but everyone in general. They will tell you how to gradually stabilize the nervous system. Maybe nootropics will be prescribed, but not a fact.
What do the adherents of the idea of Indigo do: take pride in the subtlety of the child's psyche, groom hypersensitivity, cherish increased anxiety (but only when it revolves around something universal, of course) and are touched by depressive states. Naturally, this approach only deepens the problem.
Savant syndrome
Less delicately, it is called the syndrome of the scientist idiot. It is sometimes seen in neurological problems, such as in children with autism or those with traumatic brain injury. In savant syndrome, a person develops something to compensate for a lag in something, for example, a very good memory, or the ability to quickly calculate in the head, or draw incredibly well without special training. There is nothing wrong with this compensation mechanism itself: you must admit that it is much worse when there are only problems without interesting abilities.
What should be done: to help the conscious development of the ability instead of encouraging its unconscious manifestation. To work with "weak points", helping, if not to catch up with healthy peers, then at least to adapt to our life, as much as possible.
What the adherents of the idea of Indigo do: show the child like a circus dog. As a result, very often the child outgrows the awesomeness of his abilities and at a certain age is left without a highlight, but with problems that no one thought to deal with. After all, "you cannot impose the norm of the old humanity on a child from a new, better one!" and "it will break his connection with the universe!"
Pedagogical neglect
It is believed that the Indigo Children feel their exclusivity, their elevation above the old, non-advanced humanity, and therefore have the right to ignore the rules of social interaction, ideas of tact and other obsolete prejudices. No, of course, the current rules of conduct are most likely imperfect and one day many of them will have to be abandoned. But it seems to us that the feeling of exclusivity in these children was lovingly nurtured by their mother.
What should be done: turn to a psychologist and start working with him on the social adaptation of the baby, before it's too late. Ignoring social norms and other people's feelings can also be associated with neurological problems: autism or clinical psychopathy. Here it is already necessary to deal with specialists of the corresponding profile.
What are the adherents of the idea of Indigo doing: they continue to nurture the feeling of being chosen. At best, a child will one day face a cruel world without a buffer, realize the true nature of his exclusivity and receive severe psychological trauma. At worst, he will be able to back up his royalty with real successes and will continue to behave in a boorish way, as if not to say worse, but already with a sense of the validity of his life position. Or vice versa. I mean, we don't know which outcome is worse and which is better.
Uneven development
Whether the circumstances turned out this way or the adults made an effort, but the child's development went unevenly. Intellectual first, then only emotional and social. In most of these cases, the child catches up with peers in late adolescence or even by the age of twenty-five. Often, even an intellectual advantage remains. But almost always due to the fact that social development was only brought up to the lower limit of the norm - only to become acceptable to others. Emotional intelligence often suffers. After all, resources were thrown at the most important thing - to maintain intellectual superiority.
What should be done: make sure that the imbalance in development is not very large.
What the adherents of the idea of Indigo do: score. They only care about what they can admire and delight in those around them. Everyone else is willing to pay for it.
Mental disorders
Sometimes a child claims that he hears angels, pierces the mind with the essence of the Universe and understands another special child without words, simply because he is screwed up by mom-dad or realized that others like it. But it may also be a matter of illness. Moreover, it may not be the child who is sick, but one of the parents; this is one of those cases where "madness is contagious." Dad fancies, and everyone around him starts to fancies too. In any case, with the development of the disease in a child or a parent, everything can end very sadly.
What should be done: find exactly who has problems and treat. In addition to mental disorders, by the way, hallucinations and strange ideas can cause "normal" physical illness. A tumor in the brain, asthma, serious problems with the vessels of the head …
What are the adepts of the idea of Indigo doing: they do not think so narrowly! And in general, do not meddle with your punitive psychiatry. And especially with his petty bourgeois "we said so" when it comes to the extreme point and travel to the ambulance after the hunt for demons with an ax. By the way, you cannot guarantee that the demons were not there. You can't see the aura, do you? That's it.
Text: Lilith Mazikina