Good news re: the alleged MMR vaccine/autism link

[matrixrefugee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/8493753.stm <-- I heard about this on the news recently and it's something that has me breathing easier, though as one doctor in Boston pointed out in local news coverage, "People will still worry about this and worry comes from fear

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[northernwalker]

I hope someone smacks Jenny McCarthy with this. Of course, she's also into the Indigo Child bit. *snort*

[matrixrefugee]

I wasn't aware of that, but it doesn't surprise me. Ugh. While I think there *might* be something to the whole Indigo Child theory, and I tend to fit the profile quite a bit, I just think it's been debauched into yet another thing for over-achieving parents of trophy children to try and apply to their little tyke(s) to make them more "speshul" than the next trophy child.

[northernwalker]

In my experience, it seems to be used to say, "If your kid is a hideous brat, don't worry! He's speshul! Don't try to teach them courtesy or how to behave- the world must surrender to your child, and bow down."

Yuck.

[matrixrefugee]

:: Snickers:: Yeah, I remember seeing this one head-tiltingly strange item on a list of possible earmarks for an Indigo Child: "Does your child hate to wait in line?" Which got a huge laugh out of me, since I've found, after working for over ten years in grocery retail, that some of the worst people about waiting in line are eighty year old women; thus whenever I get some cranky old lady muttering about how long the line is (even if there's just maybe one or two people ahead of her), I joke to myself "Oh, look, it's an Indigo Senior Citizen."

[northernwalker]

*giggles*

Well, I have to say that's a pretty silly question anyway- does anyone like to stand in line? It's not on my list of Great Ways to Spend the Day.