Welcome. I used to live in Massachusetts, though at this point it was probably before you were born. The roadgeek bug bit me when I was about 6 or 7 years old.
(currently not driving age as of this post)
You don't have to be a driver to attend a meetup! Many folks carpool. Consider attending one near you:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?board=21.0Though, if I'd found this forum as a teenager, I bet I'd have had a VERY difficult time convincing my parents to let me attend a roadgeek meetup. "Strangers from the Internet driving you around? No way!" Knowing that I was the type who asked for road maps for my birthday and Christmas, though, they might have let me. *shrug*
I don't remember when I found this forum, but I attended my first roadgeek meetup in 2016. I don't attend often as my wife has little interest in it and it's therefore difficult to do any meets that aren't local to me.