I would suggest getting an electric and amp. Figure out what you have for a budget, then start looking at guitars you like. The amplifier is another expense on top of the guitar.

There is not likely to be any drawback to learning on acoustic first. That happened to be what I did, though for different reasons. I did develop a style of play that was a little hard on the electric and I had to tone my enthusiasm down a lot.

Look at it this way: you would not learn piano to play trumpet. So, while a lot of the skill set is transferable, things would move more quickly if you just started with the trumpet in the first place, right?