Many people born after 1980 are classified as Indigo children. There are Indigos that came earlier as well, although they are much much more common now. It is so important that Indigos and especially Indigo children are recognised for what they are so that they can flourish like everyone else. They have lovely gifts but if they are not cared for in the right way, they will pay a heavy price for their uniqueness. They are often pushed down, and their gifts not recognised. They are often forced to conform and therefore lose their uniqueness, which lead them to lose their confidence and their path. If you are an Indigo, or know one, I advise that you research the matter a little in order that you or the Indigo in your life can benefit humanity with their spiritual and humanitarian gifts.

Here is a text about the characteristics of Indigo Children written by Wendy Chapman on www.Metagifted.org.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIGO CHILDREN

• Have strong self esteem, connection to source
• Know they belong here until they are told otherwise
• Have an obvious sense of self
• Have difficulty with discipline and authority
• Refuse to follow orders or directions
• Find it torture to waiting in lines, lack patience
• Get frustrated by ritual-oriented systems that require little creativity
• Often see better ways of doing thing at home and at school
• Are mostly nonconformists
• Do not respond to guilt trips, want good reasons
• Get bored rather easily with assigned tasks
• Are rather creative
• Are easily distractible, can do many things at once
• Display strong intuition
• Have strong empathy for others or NO empathy
• Develop abstract thinking very young
• Are gifted and/or talented, highly intelligent
• Are often identified or suspected of having ADD or ADHD, but can focus when they want to
• Are talented daydreamers and visionaries
• Have very old, deep, wise looking eyes
• Have spiritual intelligence and/or psychic skills
• Often express anger outwardly rather than inwardly and may have trouble with rage
• Need our support to discover themselves
• Are here to change the world - to help us live in greater harmony and peace with one another and to raise the vibration of the planet

~by Wendy H. Chapman

It is also worth mentioning that most, if not all, mentally disabled people seem to have a higher vibration and a higher purpose to their lives. If you have a mentally disabled person in your life, ask yourself: "What have they taught me? How am I a better person as a result of having known them?