Hi Dharma.
I sense people tend to struggle to describe anything that is different from what they think they know. Based on our own experience and understanding of things, we may disagree with the accuracy of someone else's views. Until all humans evolve to interpret and grasp things the same way, that's life.
Consider that when you try a new food or drink, your instinct may be to compare the new experience with past experience. People will say that the taste of frogs legs reminds them of chicken or, a sip of foreign wine reminds them of familiar fruit juice flavors. Many people draw comparisons help to ground themselves. Most people wish to grasp an idea and really pin it down. Only then, it bothers them less because they have a sense of control.
In terms of school, conventional and unconventional systems exist. Whether or not you're an indigo child, you may struggle within out-dated systems that only tend to evaluate a limited range of intelligence and skills. Your strengths may simply ly outside this range. Some kids labelled as "advanced" or otherwise different (possibly disruptive, impatient) in regular classes, excel in specialized curricula or home schooling. The issue isn't accessible education for indigos or other different children. Its that rigid mindsets often prefer to diagnose difference as 'problem cases' to be isolated from what are perceived to be
normal children. Consider who's view of normal is implied. Perhaps the view of those people who exert control in government, corporations, education, policy and over-reaching structures. Does "not normal" translate into a threat to their view of status quo? I'd say not necessarily, but that wouldn't likely be how these people interpret things or we wouldn't be discussing this subject.
Rather than label kids as outside the 'status quo,' school systems could choose to expand on the range of skills developed, valued and encouraged. Thus, the notion of
good education wouldn't be so limited. History shows us that people like Thomas Edison, Richard Branson and many other successes who have enriched societies have been kicked out of traditional school and written off as would-be failures. Although they were called "stupid" early on, their intelligence was simply mislabelled, misjudged and misunderstood. Indigo childrens may yet inspire new kinds of positive change (before 2012?)
