#autism

• Abe syndrome — A medical eponym linked to researchers in the field of clinical genetics and neuropsychiatry, primarily used to denote the Abe syndrome (or rare East Asian microdeletion/neurodevelopmental variants). It is characterized by severe intellectual disability, distinct craniofacial anomalies, congenital muscular hypotonia, and autistic spectrum behavioral manifestations, studied within the differential diagnosis of neuro-somatic developmental anomalies.
• Autism — A complex neurobiological developmental disorder structurally characterized by severe difficulties in social interaction and communication, as well as by the presence of repetitive and restricted behaviors, interests, or activities. This clinical condition, usually manifesting in early childhood, exhibits extreme symptom variability, being defined in modern medical manuals under the umbrella term of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
• Autistic — Suffering from autism, relating to autism, or specific to individuals exhibiting features of the autism spectrum disorder. As a noun, it denotes a person clinically diagnosed with this neurobiological developmental condition.
• Autistic female — The feminine singular form of the word autist; suffering from autism or exhibiting characteristics specific to the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As a noun, it denotes a woman or a girl clinically diagnosed with this neurobiological developmental condition.
• Autistic — A term borrowed or sometimes used as an unadapted graphical variant in specialized literature for the word 'autist'. As an adjective, it describes a behavior, trait, or thought process specific to autism or correlated with spectrum manifestations.
• Autoecholalia — A speech disorder manifested by the automatic, involuntary, and stereotyped repetition of one's own words or syllables immediately after pronouncing them; a clinical phenomenon often observed in autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, senile dementia, or various cortical neurological conditions.