Inside the Strange, Psychic World of Indigo Children 

"he found out he was indigo after an online test" Seems legit

It's weird how the mothers wish for their children to be indigo and "voila" it turns out that they are ! I wonder if there's a connection there.......

I think the most special child is the one who simply has no need to be special. Because they are so loved, so protected and seen, they can dare to just exist, and have their own immediate experiences and relationships without intense overlays. I grew up feeling like I was very special, but it was a coping strategy in the face of enormous trauma and neglect. It's also frankly exhausting.

the ADHD/sit down with the psychologist portion of this documentary really got me. the amount of deep shame that is buried within me, feeling so guilty for not being able to do what are deemed as 'easy', 'selfless', 'normal' tasks feeling that something is wrong with me because I cannot do those things.... is immense. and even if it was late, im very grateful that i went to therapy in high school, as we would never have known my dad's ADHD passed directly onto me (genetically)

'he lives in an apartment with no furniture, because a decade ago he diagnosed himself as an indigo child after an internet test. now he is spreading the word to the world'. sounds like a talkshow from GTA radio

The actual chosen ones aren’t brainwashed into an ego of thinking they’re someone special, the ego does not overtake true wisdom.

My son was diagnosed with ADHD at 5... I also was ADHD but undiagnosed. Most every child I have met with this diagnosis are extremely gifted and tested with higher than normal IQ. . Are very intuitive..

My mom also bothered me for years with the indigo and crystal children bs and that I was an indigo. Turns out I was autistic all my life andit was up to me to finally get diagnosed at 41. Sure, a lot of my characteristics are awesome and unique, but I found my tribe within the ASD community, not among new age indigo bs. I now understand my strengths and weaknesses and dont't need to deny who I am to feel good about myself. The thing is, neurodivergent people always existed and never fit in, so it's not at all that new generations are special somehow.

"Diagnosed himself Indigo after an online test"....I took and online test that said i was Tyrion Lannister but you don't see me getting drunk and spending all my time in whorehouses.

an online test totally changed this mans life

I have ADHD, there's a frustrating amount of ignorance about ADHD in the comments here. Personally I find it a real pain in the arse! I love my creativity and unconventionality but daily tasks are really difficult and I feel like I am peddling backwards. Also with regards to spirituality I have a hard time with any ideas of hierarchy as my spirituality is about looking for commonality, what connects us; not what makes us seperate, labels like 'Indigo' 'empath' sit awkwardly with me because humans are inherently capable of being gifted and empathetic, that's one of the riches of being human and while not everyone will be so I think most people are good and have been throughout history, it seems somewhat self absorbed to think of ourselves now as being more special or more exalted beings than our peers or our ancestors.

The biggest problem with ADHD in my experience is social interactions. I'm constantly told I speak to frequently or at a a rate people can't follow, I find non ADHD individuals find me tiring and I find others equally tiring. Its almost like everyone is in slow motion and every uhhhh or um or weellllll feels like I lost a year of time. It usually results in people just ignoring 90% of what I say and telling me later they normalized ignoring me for their own sanity. Really makes you feel outside the norm when people consistently tell you that you are to much for them.

I smoke indica

I love how they are supposed to be hyper-intuitive yet his sarcasm was completely lost on them

This dude is really good at treating people with respect and letting them feel open to tell their story. I’d love to see more Vice documentaries like this. Love it!

Some people are told they are "special" by everyone, not just their parents. Denying them feeling special is denying them their experience.

'When I was four I had visions'. when I was 4 I ate mud.

Cheers to Vice for getting the most sarcastic man on the planet to cover this.

you can tell that interviewer really does not want to believe them 😂

My mom taught me I was an indigo child. I grew up and turns out Im just autistic 🤷‍♂️

At 3:25- "He first diagnosed himself after taking an online test". WTF?! Am I the only one who watched this and laughed even just a lil bit?

The older brother was trying so hard to hold himself back from calling his mother and sister insane and stupid.

What's really awesome about Indigo Children is anyone can be one. Either someone tells you that you're Indigo or you just declare it yourself. And you can even give this amazing gift to anyone you want just by saying "You're Indigo"! You want to be an Indigo Child? Well congrats, you are one! Truly amazing

I am an empath indigo Queen. Its makes so much sense. I always feel like something is with me. And I read people. But now, I learn not to say anything when I know a bout something or someone. Its has put me into trouble. When my intuitions tell me about something, I keeps it to myself. I talk to nature, I love the sun very much and when I am under the sun, its really brightens up to me.

"Confirmed himself to be an indigo by taking an online test" bruh im dead af

empathy is a kind of super power in a world where everyone is starving to be understood

I have ADHD and dealt with this and it’s really unhealthy and abusive

Wow, No one person is more talented than any other. We are all Gods children and each with our own uniqueness and in the end we are all part of each other.

It's weird that not being able to do what society asks you (do homeworks, work, finish stuff on time) is immediately labelled associated with something wrong. Humans were not born to work every day in order to survive, be stressed and more... if we lived in a different society probably there wouldn't be a lot of "sick" people

you guys missed the whole point, taking the indigo children out of context. why didn t you analise the educational system and the way society wants to slave us. to be an indigo is not something special in it self, but they are people who dont want to be slaved and have their love and artistic inspiration supressed. what is the goal of life? to be formated by the market and serve the capitalism? this doc was very bad done. try to see th rea;ity from a deeper perspective. actually most of us do not want to be slaved but the indigos are the ones who can resist more. they do not depend emotionaly on any one, therefore can stand against the society alone, without a problem. others are just weak and surrender to the enemy easily. change the educational system and you will see if ADD will happen. seems that you just wanted to ridicule the children instead of treating them as a heros who can stand against the corrupt system. be aware!!!!

I could see auras as a baby. The colors change sometimes. I would also see terrifying greyish-tentacled, crab like creatures attached to the side or back of the necks of random people in crowds or in the stores. I don't see either of these as often as I am aging. I've always wondered if maybe the ones that had the tentacled creatures attached were the people that would possibly hurt someone else with violence in the future. Maybe they were being controlled unbeknownst to themselves...I may never know.

In 2004 I was told by my professor in graduate school that I was the oldest Indigo that she had ever encountered. I looked puzzled at her and she laughed and said “Google It !”

"Edward diagnosed himself indigo after an online test" I'm crying ya'll 😩😩😂😂😂😂 stop playing with me

Harry, ye're an indigo.

As an Indigo child and a researcher in the field of ADHD, I would argue that not all people diagnosed with ADHD are indigo children

It’s sad that these parents refuse too acknowledge and accept their kids disabilities. I say this as someone who is diagnosed with adhd and Autism. Taking my meds helps me function, it doesn’t dull me down. It’s not a bad thing.

This is disturbing. As a kid I too was told I was “differently special” because of the wild (and incredibly dark) stuff that would pop up in my mind. Some people called it indigo, some gifted, but the punch line is I am now 30 with no good job or reliable income due to severe mental illness. That’s because I was suicidally depressed as a CHILD and those mental illnesses that caused me to have trouble as a kid, left untreated for a few decades, absolutely destroyed my life. I am on medication and go to therapy religiously and I can say proudly that my life is beginning to improve. I will always regret the decisions of my family not to help me with what really needed to be addressed, though.

lol the psychologist guy was like "if we dont give them drugs now...they could do drugs later in their lives."

Holistic dentist: it is over, how was it? Presenter: Just tripping balls there😅😅😅

A true indigo child doesn’t need to tell others they are

To me, this whole Indigo thing gives actual spirituality a bad name and takes away the focus of what true spirituality is. Most people are now focused on being psychic and attuned in energy but it's so much more than that! It is so forced nowadays. I believe everyone has a third eye, the ability to see past earthly attachments, and to be intuitive but lots of people just aren't yet in tune with it. To me, it's all about learning about yourself and this universe and how it all flows and connects. Its all about letting go (especially of the ego) and letting life flow. Not building up your ego because you think you're more aware than another person. That is, I believe, what spirituality and Indigoism is truly about but people have just turned it into another trend :(

As somebody with learning disabilities, I find it rather insulting that they are treating learning disabilities like they are a death sentence or that people who have them are inherently stupid. Some of the most creative, intelligent people have learning disabilities, you quacks.

People will always make fun of what they don’t understand. I follow no one when it comes to this area of mystic. I knew as a child ( 6 ) I was different and I was never told that as a child . I come from a family of 6 kids in the 60’s. Very strict mother and a navy brat . My oldest brother and youngest sister share this knowing along with me . I have predicted many things but remain silent. No reason to advertise . We do not belong to any groups like this , we survive on our knowledge. Sometimes I thought I was crazy knowing the unknown until I started telling close friends and family what will be . Let’s just leave it at that . A lot of these people are making very narcissistic people. We are the same and we all have this ability.

I love that everyone decides themselves their indigo and get the powers exactly the way their written after they read about it.

Okay i mean i respect their views and all but that dentist lady and her daughter released a book and wrote the title in Comic Sans.

I think the funniest part about this is that majority of people with ADHD will get sleepy or calm when it comes to sugar or caffeine. Homegirl literally described ADHD

I enjoyed your information. Thank you so much for this.

Having been a sufferer of ADHD since i was diagnosed at the age of seven and it has been a real struggle yet i wouldnt trade the way my brain operates for anything in the world. I find this truly bizzarre. About a year ago my friends and i were in Turkey and i ended up arranging for my DJ friends to put on a night at a beach club called Indigo. A year later and we are putting on our second prog house and techno night in Manchester called Indigo. I just find that truly baffling

Even if these people are over dramatizing or embellishing their "gifts" at least they are being optimists; it's better to have positive energy then negative energy right?

It's obvious that the mom favors her daughter just because she's supposedly an 'indigo' child and doesn't appreciate her smart and talented son. What a shame

5:30 that THE OFFICE moment right there , favourite part 😂✨

we live in a seriously sad and insecure world where so many have to have the need to belong to any group... Why can it not just be Universal love and respect for all miracles of life... 🙂

Props to the brother for growing up in such a deluded family and still being able to think rationally

I took literally 6 different tests, all of which classified me as being an indigo. (on each test I was very close to the max) Yet...I don't believe in any of this bullshit. Here's the thing; all the questions are open-ended, and extremely vulnerable to interpretation. Questions such as; "I find it easy to read others" and "I have a hard time fitting in". These sort of loosely formed questions are far too susceptible to ego. These people all just want to feel like "special snow flakes". I find it highly disturbing too how so many seem to use it as an excuse for poor performance in work and school...well I excel in both, and I am apparently "an indigo". How pathetic these people are...truly. Stop making excuses for your kids, stop making excuses for yourself, and stop feeding into the obvious money making scheme this all really is. It's JUST as bad as the psychiatrists who keep over diagnosing ADD/ADHD and pedaling drugs for the pharmaceutical industry.

Coffee is a reverse for me. When I drink it, I get sleepy. I was told my son had adhd or add and I should put him in medications. He is 23 now and calm as a cucumber. His cousin was put on meds for it and she’s now addicted to drugs I like how ISSA is trying to unite everyone. We need more people like him.

It freaks me out that my daughter is 'in tune' with me. It is a common occurance that I will be thinking about something and she will come out of her room and ask for the same food I was thinking of, or any other endless number of things. I've never moved a male into my home after my husband left us when I was pregnant. Perhaps it's JUST an extremely CLOSE bond....but it's WEIRD. I don't even want to think 'naughty' thoughts because I feel like she can 'see' my thoughts. I can think of going to a store and she will ask, 'when are we going?' One day she came and said she 'saw herself outside on the swing and a lady drove up and asked her if her mommy was home.' About an hour later a Census Taker lady showed up at our door. This type of stuff is EVERYDAY.

I feel like we shouldn't use the term "Indigo" becomes it forms another illusion of separation between us. We are all indigos, we all have incredible power we can tap into. We all have the ability to tap into extra sensory perception. It's great to work with the chakras or primary energy centers because it can help heal us, sometimes we have energy blockages that prevent the energy from flowing upwards, working with the chakras can help balance ourselves on all planes. This documentary kind of pokes fun at new age beliefs but deep down it's a movement of bringing us all together & finding ourselves within. We all hold so much power but many of us only tune into the physical aspect of ourselves. The universe is all energy, vibration & frequency, we must think of it like this to reach these higher levels of consciousness. Don't look down upon these people for believing in this stuff you may actually enjoy it once you try it :) much love & light.

My mom used to say I was an indigo child. Turns out the neglect in the home had cause me to develop CPTSD which expressed itself in ADHD like symptoms… thanks mom

I can see how ADHD/Autism may be overlinked with 'indigo children' - The sensitivity levels and capabilities of thinking and understanding travel further than that of the average child. I'm ADHD and was able to understand concepts and ideas and history that I previously had no knowledge of at a very young age, I was able to understand languages and what people were speaking out solely based on their behavior without any formal knowledge of the language they were speaking, I can still do this too. I travel very well. I also used to get visions as a very young child of "imaginary friends" however stopped once I got to about 4 or 5. I take it as my own understanding and concepts I've built within my experiences throughout my life. I was abused as a baby, and this continued on in my later childhood and teenage years too and think it may be my body's natural protection agencies coming out. Just my theory on it.

Nancy Tappe, pronounced Tap-E. I had the good fortune of meeting her & having a reading with her in Carlsbad California before her death. She was delightful. She told me 2 of 3 of my children are Indigo. There are 3 types/categories of Indigo. She also told how most of the current population are being born Indigo. Many of them are frustrated & confused about their place in society & consequently 50% of them do not survive to know their path. She stated that many end up abusing drugs,killing other children(school shootings)patricide/genocide (Menendez bros, murder- suicide of immediate family) They are our bridge to the future. Consider how all children are being raised computer savvy. Take care. Honor yourself & others. Continue to be in service to others. ThankQ. 💚 &🌞 Wavey 💚 💚&🌞

I bet indigo children actually exist but it seems that people in this video are just indigo-wannabe who are trying too hard to show how "DIFFERENT" and "SPIRITUAL" they are.

If you're really an indigo child or something, why would you have the need to build an identity out of that? This is mostly just another form of spiritual ego.

I was diagnosed with ADD, dropped out of high school. Now I have a PhD. Homeschool your kids or send them to a private school. I have maintained friendships for a very long time. I have had a group of 5-6 friends that have been around for over 20+ years. My last girlfriend we dated for 13+ years. I am not saying ADD does not exist but just be very careful. People can and do live with all kinds of psychological diseases without medication and do absolutely fine in this world. If one becomes out of control then perhaps medicine is needed. They put me on some medication and it fried my brain, Now I have all of these ticks because of it which are very annoying.

I agree with this concept of finding what moves your soul, do what you love at your deepest core. This is how you begin spiritual awakening. It opens you heart center. Proper purification of your body needs to be done first though. I have worked with autistic and other children one of which was my own who was extremely gifted but she got labeled by the school system and they wanted to poison her body with medications. I trusted them and wish I had never. Thankfully she stopped everything when she became an adult. They did the same thing to my mother who was warning people about processed foods and GMOs back in the 70s. She was way ahead of her time. Our system of pharmakia is all backwards.

I tuned out as soon as I heard "diagnosed himself as indigo after taking an online test."

My friend Jenny in high school told me about this “indigo child” thing.. she thought she might be one.. she was just a narcissist though 🤷🏻‍♀️

My 4 year old told me that when she was in heaven, she picked me as her Mummy and that in a past life she used to be my mummy too … she is so advanced for her age and although she has so much energy, she does go to sleep at bedtime and she sleeps through no problem! Owing to this, I don’t think she has ADHD … School always say that she has been a lot and that she is always full speed ahead. I’ve asked them if they think she has ADHD but she can focus and concentrate and is excelling in most subjects so they don’t think so. They just think she has a lot of energy. She’s such a character but I’m going to let her determine what path she wants to take herself and support her best I can … I’m not going to force her down any path because chosen or not, her path is already set (like all our paths are) See what happens 🥰💖 xxx

I remember it like it was yesterday....so beautiful! I went outside and my friend Nathan and Mikey were hanging outside with my brother.. I had never had no experience like this.....I was 23 or 24. I was standing next to people I knew a for few years, and all of a sudden I seen a blue Aura around Mikey's head......it was so supernatural. So me being Pisces I had to make sense of it and analyze it,,, so I moved to the other side of Mikey and thought ""Maybe it's the lighting outside with the street lights"" NO,, that wasn't the case! I actually seen a blue round aura around Mikey's head,,, and here's where things get different then alot of people.......I actually stopped everyone talking and just said it out loud,, I said { Mikey I don't mean to freak you out but I see a buzzing blue aura around your head and body"") He actually believed me and said his sister seen his blue aura all the time. Years later he went from a party animal to a believer in Jesus Christ!

"He first diagnosed himself Indigo over a decade earlier, after an online test". This sentence was dripping with the very driest of sarcasm.

"we use... sugared iced tea" "what's that?" "uhm, iced tea, that has sugar...."

I’ve seen this before years ago exploring option for my son. I agree w your last statement that we are all special if it is brought out of us. Some of us shine brighter. My son was struggling w adhd so I told him he was indigo. It actually helped for a while. He is successful and thriving we believe it’s all neurologically related. Body and brain they prove needs exercise it helps with how you think and what you eat and drink matter or don’t drink would be better said. WFPB diet no refined sugar or processed foods. We can ride the storms better when healthy. Peace joy and be kind live long and healthy.

When i was a baby a woman aproached to my mom in a mall while i was in the stroller and said to her that my aura was special and that i was an indigo baby. She gave my mom a contact card but my mom never called her back.

I think dudes camera will print what ever color you tell him

"It's just tea.. with sugar.. ...... " LOL

I have seen auras many time. I was just recently diagnosed with ADHD. The thing is, I have had dreams about things that have come true, I catch things from the corners of my eyes, I have even been able to make many predictions.

I was one of them, now am an indigo adult

“You’re an indigo” *eyes widen in both disbelief, and sarcasm*

My brother had severe adhd when he was a kid and they put him on Adderall, he stopped taking it around 8yrs old and traded it for a guitar and used it as a tool to help his adhd,, never had a lesson only had a guitar and the radio and had it completely learned within a year. hes 30 now and he won the state guitarist competition last year. He's absolutely incredible on electric and acoustic. He has learned to play the drums now also and is mastering it very quickly. It's like he was born to play musical instruments

When he said school failures more like programming failures. One thing children don't need is chemicals put in their bodies. The biggest problem with humans is the introduction of chemicals in the body but that goes against the pharmaceutical industry of making them money.

Growing up not understanding or having any help is harder than people think, or moved place to place to try stopping the abilities of these attributes. The snare traps for foster care is a system of abuse and suppression for kids like these in my experience. Being told all the opposite of wat my mind believes. I'm glad none of these people are a far away from me now. I see all the moves they were planning but being a in foster care they squash you at all angles not once they offer help mentality. So that system should be checked on next level.

That first guy was a manipulative weirdo. "Uh oh, I can't prove I'm a special indigo. Oh, I know, I'll just tell the reporter that HE'S an indigo too! He'll feel so special that it'll take the attention off of me!"

My family called me an indigo child, but they trafficked and abused us growing up and what they praised as "special" in me was just trauma responses and social developmental issues expressed due to the CSA. I think calling me an indigo child was a way for my family to cover their tracks and dismiss concerns about my behaviours that could be indicative of the abuse. They called me a prophet, a healer, and all sorts of wacky psudeo-occult and psudeo-christian terms that could be neither proven nor disproven. One thing about using a term like prophet or indigo to reference a child is that its a great way to muddy the waters for anyone who might be concerned for the child's welfare. People would just dismiss us as a weird hippy Christian family and would back away instead of leaning in to ask more questions.

When I saw the man with the big ol camera that takes pictures of the "aura" I immediately thought about it having dials and buttons where he can alter the color of the final picture.

I love the summary at the end, spot on

“Sugared iced tea” “What’s that?” “Iced tea...that has sugar” 11:35 🤣🤣🤣

This is what happens when you give kids participation awards.

Very "indigo" conclusion of yours with your warm hearted perception 😘 No Wonder they included you to their family/to indigos instant 😃 as long as it serves love,peace and community and purpose to wach and society every fantasy will be welcomed to reality🤗

This is very well done 😊

I am both autistic and consider myself to be a spiritual person, but I will never identify as an indigo adult, Earth Angel, Starseed or any of these other holier-than-thou new age labels. 1. First of all it's not healthy spirituality. It's a form of "Spiritual Narcissism" where you justify loving yourself and come to believe that you're the center of the universe, to the point where you start to give your own ego a creation myth. Healthy spirituality is about swallowing your ego/pride, trying to become a better person and recognizing that it's not all about you. These new-age labels teach you not to change yourself but instead demand that the world changes around you, because you're better than everyone else by birth. Thus you're entitled to be treated as a holy special magical person, even though you aren't actually doing anything to help the world around you or better yourself. 2. As an autistic person I have struggled with my limitations, but through out my whole life I've been fighting tooth and nail to try to overcome them. I've been fighting to prove that I am capable of doing more. What always has grinded my nerves where people who would treat me like I was made of glass, which did more damage to my life. I understand that some parents might teach their kids this in hopes that it would make them feel better, but I agree that it's more damaging. you're essentially giving your kid a blue ribbon and setting themselves up for greater disappointment when they enter the adult world and learn that they weren't destined from birth to be great, but instead find they don't have the skills to survive that they could have been learning instead of Crystal healing. Plus you're grooming autistic people from a very young age to become more vulnerable to prey to dangerous cults. I don't need to identify as an indigo or any other wacky label to prove my self-worth, and I am certainly not holier than anyone else. EDIT: I just like to clear up that I'm also critical of the overuse of prescription drugs. I think it's okay to use those in some circumstances but I agree that some doctors are too quick to put children on pills when they might not really need them. I'm also a little open to some forms of holistic healing but not to the point where it becomes a full-time replacement for medical treatment, especially in more severe cases. EDIT AGAIN: To the people accusing me of being holier-the-thou, I'm not, I'm respponding to peoples claims about autism and Indigo children. As an Autistic person I have a right to be concern what people in my community are being taught and how its effecting them. I never delared myself to be more special then anyone, but if your claiming to be an indigo whose job it is to raise our "vibrations" or "teach us" wisdom, you are by default claiming to be better then the rest of us. You think its your duty to change us as if your a spiritual colonialist who looks down on us lowly people. Some of you are claiming thst you are helping by "raising our vibrations". To that I say, your not helping anyone, all your doing is giving yourself a pat on the back and "telling" yourself your helping. It as helpful as just hitting the "like" button on a Facebook page or only typing "thoughts and prayers" when tragedy happens. All it dose is fill your own ego. I'm sorry, but its the blunt truth. If you really want to help make the world a better place, then get off the computer and get involved in your community. Try volunteering for a good causes, donate things you don't need anymore to goodwill or just be nice to the people in your life. Instead of just meditating or praying for your family, freinds or even strangers who are in need why dont you try reaching out to them and do something really nice for them? You don't need a supernatural orgin story to be kind to other people.

"full-blown adult indigo" that's where I lost it

I love how the narrator thinks that the undertone of negativity is cute, it only proves further what they are trying to hide. Well done.

Indigo are starseed souls with higher energetic patterns to uplift the collective. There are the 3 waves Delores cannon spoke about. They will usually go through an ego death and their minds are geared towards unity Christ consciousness. I am an old soul with many life times prior to here. I remember some of them.

I so agree with your conclusion! People group themselves; discover or create whatever they need. There is nothing wrong with that. The problem, like you said, is when they begin to see themselves as superior to others and take their supposed superiority very seriously.

As a kid who was raised on adhd meds since I was 6....I can tell you the mind numbing affects it had on my mental health and I became very timid and jumpy while on these pills. I would sit around all day like a zombie starring at walls and also the pills had appetite suppressing side effects... so I attribute those pills to why I’m currently dealing with bulimia...I fell like the holistic community in general are just taking an alternative stance to the world of pop a pill and everything will b ok... we need a subset of people to find alternatives...

Very good journalism 🌞🌟💓🤙🏿

Over time, enduring these conditions the world displaced us in, we've developed and adapted super human powers to evolve and survive. I'm afraid many of the others who became trapped in the rat cage human experiment will die difficultly/live, or be fortunate enough to come into contact with like minded people of myself. I've reached many through media outlets through lightworking with mega celebrities. And many others. Just sparked enough to make them aware and awake. No injustice to humanity will go unpunished. Humanity will not suffer. -rainbowindi (supercharged aura humans)

Now everybody is going to think they’re an indigo. Really being spiritual you can simply relate , it’s just a matter of growth and being understanding.

"self diagnosed after an online test" well that has to be official

its sad because i truly do believe there are people who are "special" and have a certain level of intuition that most dont however, a lot of people in this make those people look horrible.

This was something called to my attention years ago, soon after I returned from living overseas. Indigo, not into EGO, because raising children of trauma to think that have special powers. I don't know why called to my attention, just internet surfing.