me: it's kind of annoying. did I ever tell you about the Indigo Children?
me: it's like this stupid trend about these kids who are antisocial and weird and brilliant and they're actually FROM SPACE or something
Ami: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!!?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA
Sent at 11:30 PM on Wednesday
me: I don't really remember, but when I was 13-ish my parents had like 400 different books about different learning styles and different theories for why weird kids are weird and there were SO MANY OF THEM and I remember looking at the Indigo Children book one time (because I was really fascinated with all these books and would look at them a lot) and my dad was like "we're just looking everywhere for something that will help us with you" or something.
Ami: OUCH
well that isn't actually that bad
me: my parents were kind of lame to me at that age, they acted like I was a terrible burden when I was actually just a strange but pretty harmless kid.

It has also been hypothesized that rather than being a new step in human evolution, the Indigo phenomena may be the reaction of children watching television shows with an emphasis on magic and New Age-compatible language. An example of this was illustrated in a Dallas Observer article discussing indigo children, a reporter recorded the following interaction between a man who worked with indigo children, and a purported indigo child:

“ Are you an indigo? he asked Dusk. The boy looked at him shyly and nodded. "I'm an avatar," Dusk said. "I can recognize the four elements of earth, wind, water and fire. The next avatar won't come for 100 years." The man seemed impressed.[12] ”

Readers of the Dallas Observer later wrote in to inform the newspaper that the child's response appeared to be taken from the storyline of Avatar: The Last Airbender; a children's cartoon showing on Nickelodeon at the time of the interview. The editor of the Dallas Observer later admitted they were not aware of the possible connection until readers brought it to their attention.[14]