 My name is Thomas Henley. I'm from Harrogate. I recently moved to Manchester and I am an international Taekwondo fighter. I found Taekwondo in my place in Harrogate and I was instantly drawn to the atmosphere and to the people. It was a lot more of my kind of martial arts. The main competitions would be the Commonwealth Championships in 2014 where I got a gold medal and I received the best male fighter of the competition for Taekwondo and I've also been to the European Championships and I came fourth in that. The only thing that I can really remember was just being really happy. I sort of had a reason for why I felt so different to everybody and why it was a bit harder to fit in and stuff. I never sort of fell on everybody else's level. So anxiety has been a big part of my life. I don't want people to feel bad for me, but it's very difficult. I regularly had panic attacks to perform fights. A lot of people would benefit from integrating autistic people into their workplaces into any sort of environments but only if they understand how to work with us and how we work. It's a difference in our brain and it doesn't mean that we're any more disabled than the rest of the world. Just because you're autistic doesn't mean that you can't be a badass and go about and fight people and take them on.