Support Miranda Keyes' Wrestling Dream

Hello! My name is Miranda Keyes and I have a story to tell! I always wondered what my purpose was and very recently I discovered what I was made for. Being in the ring. A wrestler. I am willing to do whatever it takes to achieve my dreams, so here is how it came to be!

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I was adopted into a very loving family and although I showed up with nothing but a trash bag of belongings, my baggage was within. What I will say about that is mental health is very important to me. I have been in therapy almost all my life and my therapist in fact was the one that pushed me to make this. I was really struggling with bipolar depression three years ago and almost wouldn't be here today if it weren't for family members supportively bringing me to the hospital on my birthday. Through the darkest moments I rose with a new attitude. I was working hard to maintain my mental health but I wasn't working on myself physically. I was no longer depressed, but I was still unhappy.

Around a year and a half ago I saw a video of Rhea Ripley, (WWE Superstar) on Tik Tok looking extremely confident and strong and I wanted to be like that. A light bulb went off, and it caused me to kickstart my fitness journey the very next day. I was so inspired by her confidence, her personality, her strength (in many ways), her passion for what she loves to do and more but I go on Rhea rants all the time and this isn't the right time! I started losing weight and getting stronger, which in turn made me have confidence I have never experienced before. I fell in love with working out and eating better. All the while I was watching WWE shows and getting completely and utterly obsessed with all things WWE. I started to go to my first show, where I cosplayed as Rhea, and was star struck by all the talent! I loved the crowd chanting, the energy from everything, the action, and the wrestlers reacting to the crowd. I went to my second show and saw Rhea and she winked at me and I

lost my mind! Then I had decided I was going to go to Wrestlemania 40. I saved up and went! I met Rhea Ripley and she was so kind and patient with my Autism stimming and she is the best human in the universe. I look up to her for so many reasons! Here is the picture of me meeting her!

I found a love for cosplaying and creating costumes. I started drawing and getting better at it. I started to not let anyone tell me I can't do something. I am living my life in a way that makes me happy. Around now I was really thinking about not being a hairstylist anymore, it no longer brought me the joy it once did. I didn't know what I wanted to do, I thought about a couple things but nothing really made me all in. My heart wasn't in it. A few people were saying to me "what if you were a wrestler?" and I would think to myself, "yeah what if the sky was green?" (like it would never happen). I would be on my way to the gym thinking about what my wrestling name would be if I was a wrestler, and then it hit me one day! I'm chaotic and my dad calls me Panda so why not Pandamonium! It was perfect! I went to Fanatics Fest and met Rhea again and she remembered me from last time and it made me go nuts! That's so wild to me and she likes me! This time she carried me!

She is so supportive of me it is insane. Then she followed me on twitter, stood up for me when I was being bullied and told me she cares about me and loves me on Instagram live. I am blown away by her love and support! I'm forever grateful for her. After Fanatics I went on a podcast and more people said I should try wrestling. The thing that was really holding me back was my inability to believe what my dad told me many moons ago. He said "you can do anything if you put your mind to it" and it lingered in my thoughts as I wondered what it would be like. The next day a twitter friend sent me the link to a wrestling academy experience and I sat on the train dumbfounded as I realized so many people were supportive of this dream, and my life was about to change because I felt it in my bones. I bought the tickets and went! I made a costume, I already came up with my name and I just needed my personality. I gave it my all, and I enjoyed every second of it! When I was doing a flip off the top rope I felt so proud of myself. I have so many bruises and I couldn't be happier!

I want to live my dream so bad and accomplished so much and want to keep going! I want to make it to WWE one day and ANYONE could be that one in a million, so why not try? If I don't, I will regret it, and I don't want to live my life with any regrets! I am ready to do what I was meant to do, this is how I can make a difference, maybe being the first openly autistic WWE wrestler? Or second, but still showing the world Pandamonium is a positive source for entertainment! If you want to help me afford all the travel expenses (it takes three trains to get to the academy) and the tuition and possibly supplies to get started, you rock and I appreciate you for an eternity! Thank you for even taking the time to read this!

Peace and Love,

Pandamonium