Anguished Declaration of Love: Wade to Art3mis, though without the prior subverted attempts. All of which he met/found in the OASIS, having come together due to the Easter Egg hunt, which required all of them to become ravenous consumers of media to learn the secrets Haliday left. Ultimately though, it ends up as a Broken Aesop as literally Wade's journey and ultimately victory, with him becoming the most powerful man in the world is owed to him and his social circle. The ultimate message is that media shouldn't consume your life, but they still do add meaning to it and that shouldn't be ignored either. The OASIS is an amazing, powerful tool, but humanity isn't using it to its full potential, instead using it to hide from its problems. Anti-Escapism Aesop: This is visited over and over again. He's a clearer example because he was never given a diagnosis nor does the story itself say he's on the spectrum at all. Wade is probably in the same boat, which helps him because the contest is steeped in thinking like Halliday did. 
Ambiguous Disorder: Halliday's AS is diagnosed after his death and only in speculation, but it's pretty clear that it's probably a correct diagnosis. The pop culture avatars and items, the dance parties, and the shops where you also can buy magic items and moves will all be familiar to anyone who has played that massively-multiplayer online sandbox game. Aluminum Christmas Trees: Cline did not come up with the culture and other elements out of nothing, he did research in the closest thing available pre-2011: Second Life. All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Sorrento has IOI destroy Wade's stack after they discover the latter's real-life identity. IOI is seen as villainous by ordinary people because they want to, among other things, charge a monthly subscription fee, and make it ad-supported. Wade comments on this, being dirt-poor and unable to leave the school-planet Ludus, thus feeling like he'll never get to actually search for even the first of the three keys in the Hunt. You can earn money in-game from killing monsters and running dungeons (demonstrated by Wade earning about $20,000 in OASIS credits from collecting treasure in the Tomb of Horrors), but without some initial capital to get off the starting world, it's essentially impossible. Allegedly Free Game: OASIS costs only a token 25-cent subscription set-up fee, but doing just about anything costs money, including bullets (decidedly expensive given that OASIS guns have Bottomless Magazines), in-game fuel and teleportation fees. 
It's said that Wade's father gave him the name Wade Watts because he thought an alliterative name sounded more like a superhero's name.
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