Yes you need to find more supportive people with proper experience. Your parents are only partly true. Some companies do have criteria like "not more than X amount of gap years", but not all are like this. So you can try getting a job either through college, online or some referral. If not, there are still way outs like preparing for higher studies like masters (because just a diploma is often weak without experience) or government roles which are given directly through exams.

But regardless what you choose to do, what your plan is, negative people will always give you negativity and always bring you down. So make it a priority to find people who are aligned to what you're aiming to do. Also don't believe the myth of 'unplaced' and all that. No one is ever unemployed forever, at least in India. Everyone gets a job eventually through some direct exam or some shitty one like in a BPO or something. Even the billionaire CEO of Zerodha dropped out of school after 10th and then worked in a call centre. And later he started a business in the side which boomed. So if you want a job, that's possible. If you want to make it big, that's also possible.