If you are still guessing what the this sign I spotted in Maadi is about then here is a little help :

سائق خاص محصلشي

Can you figure out the rest ?  Please do and write it in the comment box below.

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Have a fantastic New Year everyone and see you all next Tuesday!

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Francisco Hernandez Jr., who has Asperger’s, a developmental disorder that affects the ability to socialize and communicate, disappeared on October 15, after he thought he was in trouble at school, according to his mother, Marsiela Garcia of Brooklyn.

Read the rest of the story at CNN’s website .

Garcia told CNN that she contacted police when her son went missing, but received little help.

Today’s photo is a 2-in-1:

1) Another classic example of bad, bad translation.

2) Egypt’s infamous confusion between the letters b and p.

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See you all next Tuesday for another one.

Whimsy doesn’t exist. It’s just facts, figures, rules and structure. Little things get to him: Changes in temperature, the sensation of the silverware on his tongue, the sounds of the furnace kicking on.

Many of the things that we barely notice, 10-year-old Perry Township resident Brandon Wise hears, feels and sees with incredible clarity.

His world is exactly like ours, except that he is more attuned to it, more engaged in it. His mind is always working – he can’t turn it off – even at night when he pulls the covers up over his head and tries to sleep.

“Everything is literally different for Brandon,” said his mother, Melissa Wise. “He perceives the world differently. Some of the things he talks about and does are different. He is eccentric.”

Eccentric is only part of the diagnosis. Brandon lives every day with Asperger’s syndrome – a form of autism (Click to read the rest of the article).

You can also meet Brandon by viewing this short video:

Can you guess what ‘Egypt Upper Whole’ in this banner means?

[photographed by my friend @BasmaEzz ]

“At camp, my nickname was The Protester, because I was always protesting,” she said.

Oh — and she’s autistic.

Living with Asperger’s

Mercedes, a fifth grader at Thomas Intermediate, was diagnosed with Asperger’s disorder, a milder variant of autism. She is considered “high functioning” — so much so, in fact, that she wasn’t diagnosed until she was about 9 years old.

“It took her summer school teachers to notice it,” said Mercedes’ mother, Juanita Jones, a school nurse with the Bedford County system. “She wasn’t making eye contact and when she ran, she tilted her head to one side when she ran.”

Read the rest of the article and know about Asperger Syndrome Disorder.