So for me I grew up in a neighborhood full of older kids and I was the second youngest in the bunch. This was back in the late 90's as WWE was in it's prime. All of us would gather on the trampoline which was next to a thick tree so you could pull off "top rope" moves. Long story short there I was one of the jobbers along with the youngest kid in the group.
Then over time as we got a little bit older, he and I would end up acting out pro style matches by ourselves, almost every day. Unfortunately for me, a group of new kids moved in and my wrestling partner and I grew apart, which ended our wrestling.
Fast forward to 2008-09, I stumbled on some female erotic wrestling...fascinating, but still didn't realize how interested I was in wrestling. Then in 2012-13 I found some apartment style wrestling on Youtube out of nowhere...blew my mind! So I started digging around and found many fantasy style wrestling sites that are still producing today!
I think I finally understood the underground wrestling community a couple years later and still learning to embrace/accept my love for it today.