>> I love words and wordplay and writing sentence-level prose that I find sonically, or otherwise, satisfying <<

I do soundplay poetry sometimes.

>> I am instinctively very good at understanding cat body language, <<

I can do cat and wolf quite well, horse fairly well.

>> but had to learn human social skills from my culture of origin very deliberately and by rote and only really got the hang of them in my mid-twenties.<<

Humans are more complicated, the body language varies a lot by culture. I am somewhat okay at it.