Indigo Children

Indigos are people that understand the fact that we are rather behind in our spiritual life and essence. They came here to revolutionize the world, with their own way. Their sense of individuality are usually very strong. These people are not afraid of anything, as long as they know they are on their path.

Indigo children are a new generation of gifted children blessed with supernatural abilities. They are more empathetic beings than previous generations and are drawn to expressing themselves through their creativity. Indigo children are sensitive, curious, independent, open-minded and artistic.

Indigo children, according to a pseudoscientific ‘New Age concept’, are children who are believed to possess special, unusual, and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities. The idea is based on concepts developed in the 1970s by parapsychologist Nancy Ann Tappe and further developed by renown Kryon channellers, speakers and authors, Lee Carroll and Jan Tober.

Although no scientific studies give credibility to the existence of Indigo children or their traits, some parents choose to label their children who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities as an Indigo child to alternatively diagnosing them.

Critics view this as a way for parents to avoid considering paediatric treatment or a psychiatric diagnosis. Some lists of traits used to describe Indigo children have also been criticized for being vague enough to be applied to most people, a form of the Barnum-Forer effect, a tendency to think that the information provided about our personalities is about us regardless of its generalisability.

Many children labelled Indigo by their parents are diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Crystal children, a concept related to indigo children, has been linked by autism researcher Mitzi Waltz to the autism spectrum.

Indigo children all tend to have high IQs and self-confidence, which coincides with the “resistance to authority” and “disruptive tendencies,” traits, coincidentally, exhibited in children with ADHD. For some parents, it is easier to attribute their child’s behavioural problems to a superhuman quality, rather than have them diagnosed with a disorder.

A 2011 study suggested parents of children with ADHD who label their children as "Indigos" may perceive problematic behaviours emblematic of ADHD to be more positive and experience less frustration and disappointment, though they still experience more negative emotions and conflicts than parents of children without a diagnosis…

Food for thought!