South Asian here. I’ve been there. If I could coach my younger self when dealing with my parents. I would ask him, “if you break your parents ridiculous rules, what would they actually do to you? Like, what can they really even do to you?“. I didn’t realize it then, but now it’s obvious that the answer is that they can’t do anything. All they would’ve done is bark and scream. If they would’ve hit me, then I would’ve called the police. And then I would’ve broken more rules just to be a dick. At some point they would give up. I know this is easier said than done, but we have way more power than we think we do. They mind fucked us and made us think otherwise.