If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:
Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say "yes", the second will say "no."
If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.
But what if people question you from there? "Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?" For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: "I don't have a card for that."
"What the fuck," they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: "I have laryngitis. I've lost speech. My throat hurts". Whatever you expect to occur.
The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. YThey wonder about logistics. "How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?"
As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.
The above illustration is sufficient to describe this decidedly clever novelty. This cushion is made so as not to invite suspicion from the most careful observer, the moment a person sits down on the cushion, a series of the most hideous noises imaginable is produced. The effect created with this novelty would be impossible to describe.
Happy disability pride please stop calling every disorder under the sun “neurological.” Autism is not a neurological disorder. OCD is not a neurological disorder. DID is not a neurological disorder.
But what are neurological disorders, then? Neurological is a category for disorders dealing in the brain and nervous system. They bridge the divide between “mental” and “physical” disability as a somewhat unique category. Neurological covers things like epilepsy, migraine, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis—things that are physically occurring inside of the brain.
Autism/ADHD/learning disabilities/etc are neurodevelopmental. Other disorders pretty much name their categories directly—GAD? Anxiety disorder. DID? Dissociative disorder. BPD? Personality disorder. OCD is a little special, it’s placed in the anxiety disorders section but typically just has its own category of “obsessive-compulsive and related” disorders (related including things like hoarding, BFRBs, etc).
So please for the love of god stop saying everything happening in your brain is neurological because it definitely isn’t.
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