So I’m 16 years old, and my parents are so overprotective of me, since I’m a petite female. Even before the whole COVID-19 situation, I couldn't go anywhere without my parents or my older brothers. When my brothers were my age, they could go hang out with friends without parents. And I can’t! There was this one time where my dad’s car wasn’t working and I asked my parents if I could walk with my friends, who live next to me. They got mad at me, saying they didn’t know my friends' parents, even though they don’t socialize with my friends' parents. So I spent like 3 days walking with my dad. I hated it to be honest. Another recent event happened in early March, where I wanted to go to the mall with my friends. It was my first time hanging out with friends, that wasn’t a birthday or anything. My mom wanted to chaperone us, so my friends decided their moms had to come too. My friends said that they were scared to say something dumb in front of my mom. I asked my parents why they were overprotective. My mom said that I’m her only daughter and then my dad said that he’s paranoid that something will happened to me. Seriously, they are ruining my social life, only letting me hang out with my friends at school. The whole mall trip was canceled because my friend got grounded. Then my parents badmouthed them, and my friends were upset about it. Honestly, I wish I have normal caring parents, but not like this. So during the COVID-19 quarantine, my mom made a joke that I’m gonna party in college and my dad was talking about how there’s jobs for that. But how am I gonna survive college, if I don’t know how to cross the street? Or have social skills besides college? I heard that overprotected kids are more likely to fail in life or be codependent. I don’t want to fall into that category because of my parents. I don’t know how to be more responsible for them to trust me. Why don't my parents trust me?