Might just be cus we’re both neurodivergent, but we have a lot of non verbal cues, though he’s nowhere near as showy as I am.

Whenever I end up overstimmed and go non-verbal, I tug at his shirt gently, or paw at him. From then it’s simple ASL. For him, he genuinely just has simple phrasing or wordings that are kind of “key words” between us. The both of us are high functioning in our 20s, this is just kind of how it ended up and we’re both super not subtle about it. It’s great.

Edit: we literally do pigeon noises at each other at random. One of us says coo and the other goes roo. It’s literally just a “thing” between us and it started because of us watching pigeons together and it stuck.

I mean shit dude, sometimes these people literally have no one else to go to. There was a super scary example of it on a Chuggaconroy video where a comment was like “thanks for the memories and for making my days a bit better” and everyone figured it out, and like every single comment - including the creator - told him not to and they succeeded. But still it was fucking insane to see on a YouTube video.

Ooo, that’s good, thanks for the input. And thank you so much!

I think I made it about half a year to a year ago? I should update it soon.

No big! I got a good chuckle out of it, thanks!

Any grammar errors I should correct for next time? English isn’t my first language.

Yeah, if I remade this nowadays I’d likely do exactly that, or lean more towards bodily independence, but hindsight is 20/20. Thank you!

Was into the original COS back in the day but was never a formal member. Wasn’t until my mid 20s that I found TST and by then I had mellowed out a lot, and TST appealed a lot to my humanist side, along with my partner. It was mostly causality than anything else, but it’s been great so far.