Hi my name is Ciar and I am learning BSL because I think it is useful as an autistic person who is sometimes nonverbal in stressful/overwhelming situations. I have been able to fingerspell for a while as I learnt the alphabet in secondary school and my friends have taught me some signs (two of my best friends sign, one as a near-fluent second language because she went to primary school with a Deaf child and the other because they are also a sometimes nonverbal autistic person, like me). Also I really like learning languages.