My twins are identical mirror image twins. Ironically the college my daughter is attending had been doing a study on gender identification involving identical twins.

When we went for the Open House tour and the young man that was in charge of the study gave us a tour of his part of the department he stated the questions he was attempting to answer. My mouth has no filter so to my daughter's mortification I answered some of those questions automatically.

She wasn't upset or embarrassed about her brother, but of the sudden attention we got from the very cute upper classman conducting the tour. Identical twins being in short supply, he was eager to compare notes. While the rest of the group was looking through his labs and information, he talked to my daughter and I. His study was on toddlers.

I've raised my children to judge a person based upon their character and actions. To befriend the child that has no friends and to treat everyone as they would like to be treated. It has caused problems through the years. When they were in elementary school and the bully's would try to rally support when they were picking on other kids, mine did not go with the flow just because it was the easy thing to do.

I've been blessed with four wonderful children. I'm proud of each and every one of them.

I thank you all for the support. I have been looking for something like PFlag (right name?) in this area.