sweetie, find a Rabbi or teacher your parents respect, talk to that person and sit down together with you parents and discuss what goals you would like to accomplish in your life. I would not call your parents controlling, as your parents do love you and have your best interests at heart. Otherwise, if they did not care, they would leave you to your own devices. Your parents have life experience under their belt. They have seen things in their lifetime that they want to protect you from. Unfortunately, the only way to truly give a child independence is to let them make mistakes and learn from them. Mistakes do have a purpose in life, in that they let you learn from them and let you grow, hopefully, a little more wiser.
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