Well it was a shock to find out that my mentally challenged nephew was not to know that I was a lesbian. My neice is married to her lesbian wife and yet that's never come up.

Was playing a word game the other night with my nephew and he started laughing and laughing...he couldn't stop laughing. He put the word gay down. I asked him why the word was so funny and he just said I don't know.

I thought about this for a while and figured that someday he's going to crack up at the gay word again only this time, not in front of someone who would take kindly to it. I've known straight people who would not noticed his coginative slowness and basically bashed his brains in. I spoke to my other sister and she agrees. She is an educator to gifted and not so gifted children. She's seen a lot. She agrees that my nephew could come to harm in this way. Her opinion on this was that she doesn't agree with my nephews parents and that they are just going to have to learn the hard way.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?