Identity: Being denied access to my diagnosis has taken its toll GenesizC February 17, 2023 Genesiz was diagnosed as autistic at age 3, before she was adopted, but that was hidden from her. Those years of disconnection were an erasure of her identity.
On the Impossibility of Getting Medical and Mental Health Care as an Autistic, Deaf, Black Woman with Chronic Illness GenesizC February 1, 2022 Genesiz has been diagnosed and reevaluated for autism several times since age three— every time she comes across a provider who doesn’t believe her.