Whatever happened to the "Aquarius/Solstice" (?) children of 15-20 years ago?

[FightingFair]

Did they become Trans? I remember about 20+ years ago a flurry of articles with parents claiming their children were extra special, spiritual and enlightened because we had entered a new age. I can't remember what the parents were calling them, except it wasn't "Rainbow" children. The parents seemed very much of the transhausen variety because of their obsession that their child was extra special and "not like other kids." Do you remember that period and what was the collective name they were giving the children?

Indigo children?

(This is the limit of my knowledge, it's just a phrase I vaguely remember from some of the more bonkers corners of the internet.)

yy Indigo Children. I still have no idea what an Indigo child was tbh.

Yes!! Thank you! What was that all about??? It does feel like a precusor to what was to come, such as the need to set their children apart. It makes me wonder about the % of parents who have eagerly desired to have a unique child - they don't seem to have had the scrutiny of other aspects of this phenomena. In these cases the parents have been the drivers and not the children. I appreciate they have been a minority but they haven't been insignificant as they are often at the vanguard of organizations and publicity machines (Susie Green for example).

OK after a quick Google a book called "The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived" was published in 1999. That makes perfect sense with the timing of how it blew up in the media - especially in the US. A woman called Nancy Ann Tappe came up with the concept in the 1970s, claiming the children had an indigo-colored auru.

This is purely anecdotal of course, but the only two kids I know who’ve gone through full gender reassignment in their late teens and early twenties were described by their mum as “Indigo Children” during their early childhoods. The mum had books about it and was always linking to videos and documentaries and articles about this phenomenon in the early days of Facebook.

They were boys born in 1998 and 2001 to a hippy-dippy, young mum who self-describes as a witch and is of my unfortunate acquaintance (best friend’s sister). Both sons were diagnosed with ASD- as were the witch and her then husband- in about 2008/9.

The older child is now 27 and had the full surgical reassignment, whilst the 24yr old is still waiting for their final part of the treatment. The mum is now 45ish herself and describes herself as non-binary.

Indigo children seems to have morphed into starseed children

That's interesting @LambriniBobInIsleworthISeesYa as online it says there was skepticism from the medical and therapist community at the time who felt much of the enthusiasm for Indigo children was generated by parents wanting to deny various diagnosis of their children - particularly autism.

My husband has met a number of autistic young adult children who identify as transgender and their parents in his work - (unrelated to trans identity or autism). He said the mothers were very strange and often seemed more invested than their children in the child having a Trans identity.

Maybe as well as some parents preferring to trans the gay away in their children, others are also preferring a Trans identity to a diagnosis of some kind.

It just seems significant that the Indigo children phenomena was right before transitioning children took off.

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine Starseed children also seem to have qualities that are seen in autism - such as feeling disconnected from others.