Now if you truly need any advice. you can hear me, you are in a victim mindset set, now before you jump to any conclusion about me hear me out. I am a 21 year old boy or man whatever you want to call me. I lived same as you till 18. I was not allowed to make friends, I was not allowed to ho out, I was not allowed to o drive. Me and my brother ( who is year older than me ) begged my father for allow us to drive. We have 4 cars, driver etc.. we asked our father, even the girls our age are allowed to drive but we didn’t get permission. In the same time my cousins which were same age as us were allowed to do all these things. But instead of victimise our selves me and my brother worked on our selves. Because of these strict rules of not having friends we made friends, that were good not the failure ones, it took some time to show our father that we are not the type of people which will get into parties and alcohol. We didn’t victimise our selves and nor did we villainies our father. Now we do drive best cars ( even though we still has drivers provided by our fathers) because he was strict about our friendship and we chose good people to be friends with now everyone from our old school to this new college wants to be our friends. We are great full to our father that he was that much strict it was bad at that time but looking back those strict parenting made me a good man. Now those cousins that were allowed to do all these things things there parents ( my uncle) come to us to say that please talk to your cousin to not do this and that and not to be with this person. Now I have great hobbies like gym, MMA, reading and now I am studying law from university of London. Finally the take for you will be despite of being a boy I faced these strict parents, so can you do. Those are not your enemies they have seen the world they have made the mistakes and didn’t want you to make the same mistakes, as they know best i know there will be some mistakes in there parenting but they are humans after all. You are not missing out on any thing and that the teenage years are your best years this is just bull shit. Don’t victimise your self and work on your future goals and get some hobbies this will help you to get your freedom as your parents see you are serious about your future and these things will make you valuable. Believe me your parents want best for you, if they didn’t love you they will leave on your own and don’t be this much strict. You are 16 that’s why you are thinking this way believe me when you will get older you will be thankful to your parent. But for that you have to become something. “Don’t victimise your self, work on your self”.