"Hello" can be enough. :) I've had the opportunity to meet up with animal people. I guess I also enjoy the fact that not only they "know", but they also understand to some degree. I don't feel the need to tell my IRL circle of friends about my animalness, because my animal behavior can be pretty obvious and they have aknowledged it, and because if they can't understand me in addition, it is very pointless to me. The animal does not care about having some sort of recognition. I would enjoy very much hanging around with animal people like I do with non-therians, as they'll understand an aspect of myself that others cannot, but that's about it. I don't crave for this interaction, and I'm doing fine both with non-therians and on my own.

My relationship to animal folk is very similar to the one I have with non-therians: those I relate to the most, and who relate the most to me, often are the ones I get close to, and those who aren't on the same intellectual lever as I am, and with whom I have nothing to say, are completely ignored. In the end it does not matter if what I have in common with people is animalness or gendervariance or something else. I just get along with people who can understand me to some degree, even if they experience the thing differently.