He may not be able to read expression and body language as intuitively as a Deaf person, but he's got a pretty good eye for it.

I haven't always been able to turn into a dog, he explains. It's an ability I only acquired... two months ago? I still get pretty caught up in-- He pauses, thinking about how best to say this in sign, eventually settling on: --dog-brain-thoughts when I'm in that form.