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Thanks for the most important non-recognized holiday since 'International Talk Like a Pirate Day' (Sept 19th).
As for your question, I think that D&D allowed the fluorescence of my inner geek from what was merely a somewhat adrift misfit. I come from a very small rural community and lived 'out in the country' with few other kids around, so there weren't the same chances for social opportunities that my friends 'in town' had. I read a lot and roamed pretty widely around our property and woods, and should by all rights be dead or paralyzed from the number of times my brother and I did hay diving in the barn loft...but D&D opened huge vistas that just seemed to resonate with me.
Comic books and video games came later, and reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a freshman in high school let me know I wasn't alone in the universe, but D&D was really the fertile soil that let the seed of geekiness grow deep-rooted.