Cause of Boredom

I can’t say for certain whether or not attention deficit disorder (ADD) is real. What I can say is that most (if not all) diagnosed cases are flawed.

Children frequently find themselves struggling with boredom in school. This boredom makes it more difficult for students to focus on schoolwork. Since we feel that our schooling system is incapable of anything less than perfection, the obvious conclusion is to place as much blame on the students as possible.

I’m going to throw out an alternate theory to “Everyone on this planet is disabled due to Attention Deficit Disorder.” Before school, children are free to think without restriction. In school, they are pressured to stop thinking for themselves. These children ultimately struggle with the level of mental inactivity that their teachers demand.

The schools are failing the children who will eventually grow up and shape this world. Society keeps defending the schools, and the flaws found within the system are being blamed on the students. I’m not saying that children are perfect. I’m just saying that the schools should not be using them as scapegoats for their own mistakes.

Having children conform to the role of the ideal student has become so important that mental health professionals now look to explain and correct individuality. In fact, there are those who view my desire to remain mentally active as unnatural. I view this as a strong personal strength, but others view it as a flaw.

I was bored in school. I don’t think that boredom should be labels as a flaw. I would look the opposite direction and insist that anyone who doesn’t struggle to shut off their brains during school hours has mental deficiencies.

What exactly is the problem here? The schools seriously underestimate the mental abilities of their students. When children find that their mental activity is uncomfortably low, their brains instinctively look for something to do. This results in a shift from schoolwork to just about anything. Since they struggle to focus on schoolwork, we view them as inferior specimens of human beings. We label them and medicate them so that they can reduce mental activity to the low level that the schools require.

We should not be interested in correcting differences in personalities. Individuality is not a flaw. The schools’ inability to accommodate the needs of the individual is. Instead of trying to correct things that aren’t wrong, we need to focus on the real problems. Fixing the children is not nearly as effective as removing children from their mental prisons.