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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 62862" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Thanks for the link. I'd never heard of this - or maybe I had, and my horrified brain was self-censoring to keep my blood pressure under control.</p><p></p><p>I am exerting considerable self-control right now, in not presenting you with my critique of this woman's 'words of wisdom' and her total blindness to proper scientific method, analysis and discussion.</p><p></p><p>We go from one weird modern viewpoint to another - first I get attacked by people at church because they say my child is possessed, because she was asked to close her eyes and describe what she saw - she said she saw the colour red (as you do, when you close your eyes - it is light filtering through the blood vessels in your eyelids). When I failed to be suitably impressed and horrified, I was also immediately suspect of being possessed. You can't win with these people (this woman has since left to start her own church, wonders why we never darken its door). And now we get the new-agers with THEIR take on our wonderful children.</p><p></p><p>I have my own theory on my wonderful children. I do not see their difficulties as brain damage; it is merely a difference in brain wiring. Their difficulties are greater in this modern age because society has less room for variability, less room to accommodate those who learn differently or think differently. Yes, schools these days can be a lot more broad in what they will support, but in the past many of these kids would not have gone to school, they would have been either institutionalised or kept at home, learning there. They would have found their niche in the world and fitted in because routine and sameness were easier to achieve back then. These days we are more crowded, more hurried, more insistent. I look back through generations of my family, and husband's family, living on the land - these kids would have been the problem solvers of the farm, making running repairs through ingenious use of whatever was to hand; studying the patterns of behaviour of the animals, the fine detail of the crops and the weather and would have found their place doing what t hey do best, without being overly stressed every second of every day. They would have had to interact with fewer people.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for this reference. Just when I think it would be nice to go and live on a commune somewhere in the country and get back to farming life, you lot bring me to my senses.</p><p></p><p>The folk at Nimbin, the ones who aren't actually trying to make a commercial go of it, the ones who live in the trees and only come to the ground for the regular market days - they're called ferals.</p><p></p><p>I think I have a name for this "indigo child" stuff - Feral FilosoFy.</p><p></p><p>'Nuff said. I'm going to wash my mouth out with soap and water for what I've been saying as I type this.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 62862, member: 1991"] Thanks for the link. I'd never heard of this - or maybe I had, and my horrified brain was self-censoring to keep my blood pressure under control. I am exerting considerable self-control right now, in not presenting you with my critique of this woman's 'words of wisdom' and her total blindness to proper scientific method, analysis and discussion. We go from one weird modern viewpoint to another - first I get attacked by people at church because they say my child is possessed, because she was asked to close her eyes and describe what she saw - she said she saw the colour red (as you do, when you close your eyes - it is light filtering through the blood vessels in your eyelids). When I failed to be suitably impressed and horrified, I was also immediately suspect of being possessed. You can't win with these people (this woman has since left to start her own church, wonders why we never darken its door). And now we get the new-agers with THEIR take on our wonderful children. I have my own theory on my wonderful children. I do not see their difficulties as brain damage; it is merely a difference in brain wiring. Their difficulties are greater in this modern age because society has less room for variability, less room to accommodate those who learn differently or think differently. Yes, schools these days can be a lot more broad in what they will support, but in the past many of these kids would not have gone to school, they would have been either institutionalised or kept at home, learning there. They would have found their niche in the world and fitted in because routine and sameness were easier to achieve back then. These days we are more crowded, more hurried, more insistent. I look back through generations of my family, and husband's family, living on the land - these kids would have been the problem solvers of the farm, making running repairs through ingenious use of whatever was to hand; studying the patterns of behaviour of the animals, the fine detail of the crops and the weather and would have found their place doing what t hey do best, without being overly stressed every second of every day. They would have had to interact with fewer people. Thank you for this reference. Just when I think it would be nice to go and live on a commune somewhere in the country and get back to farming life, you lot bring me to my senses. The folk at Nimbin, the ones who aren't actually trying to make a commercial go of it, the ones who live in the trees and only come to the ground for the regular market days - they're called ferals. I think I have a name for this "indigo child" stuff - Feral FilosoFy. 'Nuff said. I'm going to wash my mouth out with soap and water for what I've been saying as I type this. Marg [/QUOTE]
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