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  2. Indigo children - Wikipedia

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    In particular, he wrote that Nancy Ann Tappe derived some of her ideas from Charles Webster Leadbeater (her main innovation being emphasizing the connection between children and the color indigo), and that the New Age adoption of the concept is a reaction against diagnoses of ADHD and autism. Kline also discusses how Carroll and Tober have ...

  3. Visual thinking - Wikipedia

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    Visual thinking, also called visual or spatial learning or picture thinking, is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing. [ 1] Visual thinking has been described as seeing words as a series of pictures. [ 2][ 3] It is common in approximately 60–65% of the general population. [ 1] ". Real picture thinkers", those who use visual ...

  4. List of autistic fictional characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional characters that have been explicitly described within the work in which they appear, or otherwise by the author, as being on the autism spectrum. It is not intended to include speculation. Autistic people involved in the work may be mentioned in footnotes.

  5. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Passing on to the blue group, there is steely x, thundercloud z, and huckleberry k. Since a subtle interaction exists between sound and shape, I see q as browner than k, while s is not the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl. Daniel Tammet wrote a book on his experiences with synesthesia called Born on a Blue Day ...

  6. Viola sororia - Wikipedia

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    Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.

  7. Daniel Tammet - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Tammet FRSA (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association 's Young Adult Library Services magazine. [ 1]

  8. Rainbow flag (LGBT) - Wikipedia

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    In response, the San Francisco-based Paramount Flag Company began selling a version using stock rainbow fabric with seven stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet. As Baker ramped up production of his version of the flag, he too dropped the hot pink stripe because fabric in that color was not readily available.

  9. History of autism - Wikipedia

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    Kanner would later say that she was one of the three people to identify autism before he did. [78] Leo Kanner published the first American textbook on child psychiatry in 1935, [102] titled Child Psychiatry. (While many sources say he published the first English-language book of that kind, Kanner himself credits this to William Ireland). [103]