Why are children with ADHD drawn to nature?

Kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) usually don’t want to sit in a class learning about nature -- they want to learn actively, in the natural world. Whereas current education systems demand focused concentration on abstract concepts, children with ADHD may be gifted with what author David Abram calls “sensuous consciousness.” Abraham writes about the devastating impact of our disengagement from the natural, organic world we live in.

He depicts a culture that has become so absorbed in its own intellectualized abstractions, supported by increasingly sophisticated technologies, that we have become numb to the destruction of our environment. Abram refuses to put forth any utopian solutions to the problems he poses, suggesting that such ideas would themselves invite attention away from our sensuous surroundings. Abram’s ideas offer one avenue for understanding the gifts that our culture calls an attention deficit -- the style of consciousness that gets called ADHD is precisely what is necessary to reverse the environmental damage wrought by the dulling of our senses.

For example, when asked what they are paying attention to in class, children with ADHD often remark that they are looking out the window. They are deeply engaged in observing the trees, birds, or any glimpse of wildlife the window opens up for the child. Often these children are caught by what Abram calls “the spell of the sensuous.”

Under such a spell, the child perceives the concrete, everyday world as almost magical, whereas the abstract world of thoughts and books is not compelling. Abram argues that this is a positive quality and entails being enchanted by the world of the senses, often linked to organic natural events. To Abram, attention to the spell of the sensuous would not be seen as regressive but could in fact show a way of being in the world that would facilitate an ecological mind-set.

In Abram’s words, “it is only at the scale of our direct, sensory interactions with the land around us that we can appropriately notice and respond to the immediate needs of the living world.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.