So, the system worked; that's great. Your niece's teachers and the grandmother were overruled after professional testing. The fact that your niece was fine at home was a clear sign that she did not have ADHD. ADHD doesn't just turn off when a child comes home from school.
I think many of your points were well-taken, barabara, about medication. I don't think anyone here is saying that kids should be put on medication without a complete behavioral and medical analysis, and only as a last resort.
I think the indigo child movement takes it too far in the other direction being anti-medication. Some kids who truly need medication will miss out on a chance to get their thoughts and behavior under their own control. Instead, they'll be fed some delusional garbage about being misunderstood, superior, paranormal, and born to save the world.
Because of the characteristics promoted as Indigo, like feeling and acting like royalty, unresponsive to discipline, system busters or even school shooters, no wonder many people are responding to this movement with a call for medication and spankings, calling them just "spoiled brats" - not that I agree with that, but it's a typical and understandable reaction to the way the indigo child idea is being promoted.
In this article, a little boy's head is messed with by some Indigo pushers.
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I saw later on the Internet that the boy's mother was livid that the father exposed her son to these people.