(Oh-oh; emjae's dscovered the 'Holy Graille' )


:)

Lol. I was thinking of asking you about it. I think I prefer their explanation over my diagnosis. Lol. Bad me?

I think it is utter nonesense and offensive.

Why, because the whole autism thing got associated with this and as someone who is step father to two what would have been termed "indigo children" it might comfort for a milisecond us in what all of us are going through until we realise it's just not true.

From a scientic perspective it is also complete rubbish throughout, from the basic "science" and "evolution" right up to the claims of possession of paranormal abilities.

It proves that not everything from the 70s was cool and the only benefit of the "theory" was that it made a bunch of charlatans a bunch of money, but did nothing for the kids or parents.

K9 blocked it because it was 'Occult'. :)

Satan, your Kingdom must come down!

okey-dokey. That was Harsh, you two.

Perhaps another response could be, "emjae, even if it were so, it is not likely we should embrace it 'instead' of bipolar meds and treatment, because it is just too Overwhelming, and potentially self - destructive, to function without help.

I'm going to be mostly offline for a week or so, but I'll message you later, emjae. :)


"With love from a bipolar indigo child"

MA, sorry you thought it was harsh.

The context of my reply was from someone who is on the autism spectrum who has two autistic sons.

As such I see it as a racket that made money out of parents of autistic children desperate to find some help but finally offering nothing at all.

Overall the amount of exploitation, misinformation and plain hatred against the autistic population dwarfs anything the bipolar community has experienced. Did you know that there is an organisation that has been helping people deny parenting rights to people that are on the spectrum?

So with that background and being aflicted myself gave rise to the force of my reply.

Pseudo- science is pseud-ing for me :-) I wouldn't use this to make myself feel so comforted that I wouldn't treat my BP/BPD symptoms but as someone who prefers the fantastic to reality this makes me feel a little less like a freak and little bit cooler. In RL you guys have people who understand or at least know others who are mentally ill or have BP- I don't. So either way I'm alone. I'm sorry you find it offensive- I understand where you're coming from.

You are here with us sweetie and we understand you... Big hug...x

To make a long story short, I've found that people who believe in this particular sort of thing oftentimes have a cultish dedication to it.

However I still have a couple of very good, sweet friends who are believers (and indigos themselves). I've been told I'm an indigo child. I think it's true, but I'm careful with who I discuss this stuff with because as previously mentioned, the cult-like dedication of most "out of the closet" believers turns me off from talking to them, and it's also a trademark that they don't really know what they're talking about, but rather rehearsing a script.

In a nutshell, yea, but I'm in the closet about it because I prefer pragmatic company.

Iam, this is way off topic by the way, but how many months along are you??? [:

as a side note, the majority of these people are completely dismissive of mental illness and believe in pseudo-science-y stuff such as "homeopathy" (read: very diluted concentrates of herbs which may or may not have medicinal properties).

So... I mean yea.

But I have a couple friends still who are indigos, but not dismissive of my mental illnesses or their own.

I'm not about to get all cultic, no worries. Lol. I just thing the name and explanation are cool. I'm gonna be 19 weeks tomorrow. Celebration! I didn't really consider some of you guys would have had bad experiences with it. I come from a country where no one really knows shit about MIs much more pseudo scientific explanations. For us having a link to the spiritual world is no big deal. I guess it's the African -ness in our heritage. My great grandparents were thought to be psychic but we never called it that. Yaay for weirdness.

Don't believe in it at all. When I hear that term and that child can't socialize with only the parent I don't think that describes a gifted child. Just my opinion.

There's a lot of stuff out there that's interesting to read, but I think it can be really damaging to tell a person for years they are special and 'magical' or something like that. You can't go out in the world and relate to other people normally if you kind of half believe you are superhuman....