I Started playing guitar in 1978... Never had any lessons... Just had a guy show me how to tune it and saw a chord chart hanging in the local music store and started trying to memorize those run home and practice and just played a long with my albums...
With YouTube there is no reason to pay for lessons... anything you would ever want to know is available 24/7/365 for free.
Acoustic or Electric don't matter... Get whatever has you inspired to play...
