“Other generations tried, but then they became apathetic. Indigos are "vigilant about cleaning the earth of social ills and corruption, and increasing integrity,” Virtue said. They can show signs of depression, but also know themselves to be important for the future of the world – and if you’ve ever taken them to a traditional counselor, there’s a fair chance you’ll have heard the letters “ADHD” floating around at some point. They can be overly aggressive, but also fragile and introverted, Virtue wrote they can have either low self-esteem or lean towards delusions of grandeur. Indigos are nothing if not hard to pin down. Now a born-again Christian who denounces all her previous work as heretical, Virtue had previously been a psychotherapist for adolescents, but by the early aughts, she was one of the lead authorities on indigo children – in fact, she had literally written the book on the phenomenon, penning The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children in 2001.Īccording to Virtue, an indigo child exhibits most or all of a long list of characteristics, including being strong willed born in 1978 or later headstrong and independent – “ even if they're constantly asking you for money,” Virtue noted creative prone to addictions easily bored craving friendships, even being able to bond with animals or plants who sometimes finds it difficult to go to sleep, and may have a history of seeing “angels” or “deceased people,” she wrote. “To me these children are the answers to the prayers we all have for peace,” Doreen Virtue told the New York Times back in 2006, when the “indigo children” phenomenon was around the height of its fame. The idea that “indigo children” were not just unique, but semi-magical, was encouraged by some of the main original proponents of the concept. To be clear, this isn’t one of those things like the hygiene hypothesis, where legitimate ( albeit ultimately misguided) scientific thought got warped by overzealous and undereducated parents and media. “In one account I read, a child diagnosed as ‘indigo’ described themselves as ‘an emperor from another planet’ who had fallen into his mother’s womb by accident another girl casually spoke to gnomes.”
Indigo children “might also be a bit psychic,” Taylor explained. So far so standard – but for some believers in the concept, things didn’t stop there. “Signs a child may be ‘indigo’ include strong intuition, creativity, also a headstrong, passionate, and questioning character,” wrote James Taylor, recounting his own experiences with the term in an article for Glasgow University Magazine last year. According to Nancy Ann Tappe, the self-proclaimed “synesthete” (more on that later) who invented the concept, “indigo children” are a group of "highly evolved" individuals, all of whom share certain psychological traits that mark them as existing outside – maybe even above – the norm.
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