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By Ammar Ebrahim and Ben Hunte
BBC News
LGBT people with learning disabilities have often faced barriers when it comes to their identity - but some are now using their negative experiences to bring about change. I thought I was going mad, I thought there was something wrong with me. That s how Shaun Webster felt when he first realised he was attracted to both men and women.
Shaun is 48 now, but It took him over a decade to come out as bisexual - in part he says, because of barriers many LGBT people with learning disabilities face.
Shaun has short-term memory issues and dyslexia. He attended a special needs school when he was younger, where he says he wasn t given a proper sex education .
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In many ways – all the important ones – James Sinclair and his fiancée Carolyn are like any other young professional couple trying to get on with their lives as far as Covid will allow.
Their wedding is booked for April next year at the Eden Project in Cornwall although, of course, it’s shrouded in uncertainty. They’ve just bought their first home together in West London – which has suddenly doubled up as their joint office (Carolyn, 27, is a paralegal, working towards becoming a lawyer, and James, 26, works in technology). They’ve become proud parents to Velma, a cavalier king charles spaniel puppy.