Aspies For Freedom

...Or old workbooks in my case (I'm still working my way up). It's a new interest I found tonight.

I was thinking about how when I worked at the fish/reptile store with a bunch of guys they would always try to show off their "manliness" to each other when there were no customers (it was quite amusing), and the assistant manager would win because he was the only one who knew how to tear 1500-page phone books in half. So then I decided to read up on the technique and try it myself.

I don't have any phone books around, so I instead I tried it on old workbooks I have laying around in my dorm. I was working on my technique for about a couple hours (most of that was letting my hands rest though, and then finally I was able to properly tear a 150-page workbook (that would be like a 250 page phone book). I feel kind of proud of my accomplishment, and there will be much more book-tearing in the near future.

Does anyone else know how to tear phone books?

Haha, I just realized the humor in having one thread about about the all the distress that phones cause and another one about tearing up phone books. They seem to go hand-in-hand here.

No papercuts, though my hands are a bit sore now (I hope I don't get any blisters). I used this page to figure out the technique (the pictures are really helpful).

I used to tear pine trees in half, with my bare hands.

If that counts.

i once punched through a door.

if that counts.

I punched a hole in a plaster wall with my head when I got very distressed about 3 years ago.

Take that, last year's 100-page chemistry lab manual!

Cool! I just wish I had a book thick enough to tear through. I'll have to find one to practise on.

The best I've managed was to kick a hole in one of the doors in my house about 3 weeks ago during a massively depressed rage. We've got new ones now though.

When I used to get into massively depressed rages, I would draw on my walls or carve designs into them. And then sometimes, the the designs would remind me of cities so I'd start building separate communities (the size of the drawing was analagous to the population of the city) and draw highways between them and whatnot.

That sounds like a good idea. It's less destructive and more arty, though I think my mum would kill me if drew on the walls. Maybe if I got a thick notepad I could do the drawing in that and practise ripping it in half.
It was a really massive masively depressed rage though, I ended up crying on the grass in my back garden at night on the comedown lol.

Holy crap, I can't believe I just ripped this 300-page algebra workbook in half...

Traditional, all the way. The oven method is for losers (and since I live in a dorm hall I don't have access to an oven anyway). Hahaha...

Yeah, my algebra days are over (thankfully). Unfortunately, now I have long calculus to look forward to, which is even more fun.

I just bought that book so I could do halfway decently in the math placement tests I had to take last summer.

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