I became interested in the Faith via my Italian grandmother who became a stay at homer after they changed the Mass in 1969. I wasn't raised Catholic.
As a young 14 yr old, through some oddball means (The Exorcist, George Carlin's Class Clown recording, and my grandmother's memories of the true Mass plus questions about the red fishes on her calendar, lol), I began researching the Catholic Faith. At 18 I approached the nearest NO parish....knowing nothing much of the changes in the Church, and was schooled from the Baltimore Catechism and Douay Bible by a very trad priest who hated the changes but stayed out of obedience. After my Baptism I discovered ORCM Masses being held monthly at the local airport motel. I began attending and the rest is history.
Btw I must agree with the poster who said in the 70s you were either trad or modernist. We were few then and had to stick together. The ORCM (somewhat sede) got along with SSPX and Abp Lefebvre was our only real bishop that was accessible for confirmations. He did confirmations for any trads, incl. mine.