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Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks, founded February 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright with $25 million from Bernie Marcus, is the largest US autism advocacy organization; known for Light It Up Blue, the puzzle piece logo, the 2009 I Am Autism video controversy, and its 2016 removal of 'cure' from its mission.
Autism spectrum
Autism spectrum (autism spectrum disorder, ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition marked by social communication differences and restricted, repetitive behaviors. Key facts: US prevalence 1 in 31 eight-year-olds (CDC 2022), over 3:1 male-to-female ratio, DSM-5 criteria, Kanner 1943 origins, vaccines ruled out as a cause.
Autism spectrum disorder due to AUTS2 deficiency
AUTS2 syndrome (autism spectrum disorder due to AUTS2 deficiency, OMIM 615834) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from AUTS2 gene loss at 7q11.22, causing intellectual disability, autism, microcephaly, hypotonia, and dysmorphic features.
Autism spectrum disorder-epilepsy-arthrogryposis syndrome
Autism spectrum disorder-epilepsy-arthrogryposis syndrome (SLC35A3-CDG, AMRS, OMIM 615553) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive N-linked glycosylation disorder from SLC35A3 variants, causing autism, epilepsy, intellectual disability, arthrogryposis, and microcephaly.
Autism spectrum quotient
The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) is a 50-item self-report questionnaire measuring autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence, introduced in 2001 and used in research and clinical screening.
Autism susceptibility gene 2 protein
Autism susceptibility gene 2 protein (AUTS2), activator of transcription and developmental regulator on 7q11.22, a nuclear PRC1 and cytoplasmic Rac1 regulator; its haploinsufficiency causes AUTS2 syndrome with intellectual disability and microcephaly.
Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist
The Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC) is a free, one-page parent-report questionnaire measuring change in autism spectrum disorder symptom severity, with lower scores indicating better status.
Autistic Pride Day
Autistic Pride Day, June 18, founded in 2005 by Aspies for Freedom, is an autistic-led annual celebration of autistic identity and neurodiversity marked by the rainbow infinity symbol, distinct from April awareness campaigns and not run by charities.
Autistic supremacism
Autistic supremacism, often called Aspie supremacism, is a belief within the autistic community that "Aspie" or "high-functioning" autistic people are superior to other autistic and non-autistic people.
Autistici/Inventati
Autistici/Inventati, also known as Autistici.org, was an Italian volunteer collective providing no-logs email, web hosting, and other privacy services to activists from 2001 until it dissolved in September 2026 after a US terrorism designation.
Auto battler
An auto battler, also called auto chess, is a strategy game genre where players draft units and watch fights resolve automatically. It emerged from a 2019 Dota 2 mod.
Auto clicker
An auto clicker is a software tool that generates mouse clicks or screen taps automatically at set intervals, used for desktop work, accessibility, testing, and games.
Auto Club Speedway
Auto Club Speedway, formerly California Speedway, was a 2-mile D-shaped oval in Fontana, California, that hosted NASCAR Cup Series racing from 1997 to 2023 before demolition.
Auto da Índia
Auto da Índia (Farsa chamada Auto da Índia) is a one-act farce by the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, first performed in 1509 at Almada before Queen Dona Leonor.
Auto de los Reyes Magos
The Auto de los Reyes Magos is a short 12th- or 13th-century Castilian verse play on the Magi's visit to Herod, the oldest surviving text of Spanish theater.
Auto Focus
Auto Focus (2002), Paul Schrader's biographical drama starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe, depicts Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane's sexual addiction, his video technician friend John Carpenter, and Crane's unsolved 1978 murder.
Auto mechanic
An auto mechanic, also known as a car mechanic or automotive service technician, is a tradesperson who inspects, diagnoses, maintains, and repairs motor vehicles, including engines, brakes, and electrical systems.
Auto polo
Auto polo: an early-20th-century American motorsport adapting equestrian polo, with driver-and-malletman crews in cars. Invented by Joshua Crane Jr. in 1902, revived by Ralph Hankinson in 1911, notorious for crashes, extinct by the Great Depression.
Auto racing
Auto racing, competitive racing of automobiles under organized rules, began with the 1894 Paris-Rouen Trial and is now led by FIA-sanctioned series such as Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, and Formula E, each with distinct cars, tracks, and regulations.
Auto rickshaw
The auto rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, is a motorized three-wheeled taxi with a motorcycle engine and cabin for three passengers, dominant across South and Southeast Asia.
Auto sacramental
The auto sacramental is a one-act Spanish allegorical play on the Holy Eucharist, performed in the streets at Corpus Christi from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Auto Shankar
Auto Shankar (Gauri Shankar), Chennai auto-rickshaw driver convicted of six murders and sentenced to death in 1991; his disputed autobiography triggered R. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu (1994), India's landmark privacy and press freedom judgment.
Auto Shankar (2019 TV series)
Auto Shankar is a 2019 ZEE5 Tamil crime thriller web series, directed by Ranga and starring Sarath Appani as the Chennai serial killer Gowri Shankar, hanged for six 1980s murders.
Auto Train
Auto Train, also known as Amtrak Auto Train, is a daily Amtrak overnight service carrying passengers and their vehicles between Lorton, Virginia, and Sanford, Florida, skipping about 900 miles of Interstate 95 driving.
Auto Union
Auto Union, formally Auto Union AG, was a German vehicle group formed in Saxony in 1932 from Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer, whose four rings remain the Audi logo.
Auto-brewery syndrome
Auto-brewery syndrome, or gut fermentation syndrome, is a rare disorder in which gut bacteria or yeasts such as Saccharomyces and Candida ferment dietary carbohydrates into ethanol, causing intoxication without drinking; diagnosed by carbohydrate challenge, treated with diet and antifungals.
Auto-da-fé
An auto-da-fé (Spanish auto de fe, literally "act of faith") was the public ceremony at which early modern Inquisition tribunals announced sentences on condemned heretics.
Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune is a pitch-correction audio processor introduced by Antares Audio Technologies in 1997, invented by Andy Hildebrand and famous for the hard-tuned effect on Cher's "Believe".
Auto1 Group
Auto1 Group, legally AUTO1 Group SE, is a German digital used-car marketplace founded in Berlin in 2012, operating across more than 30 countries through AUTO1.com and Autohero.
Autoacceleration
Autoacceleration, or the gel effect (Trommsdorff effect), is the sudden increase in free-radical polymerization rate at high conversion, when rising viscosity slows termination and can cause runaway heating.