So I (21F) live at home with my parents and younger sister (15F) while i’m working and going to school full time. My parents and I don’t have the best relationship because I’ve always felt that they were really smothering and i’m a very independent person/thinker. They were really strict up until I graduated high school, to the point of not letting me wear ripped jeans or dark nail polish (so i didn’t ever really get to go out much either). And being this age and still living here has gotten really difficult especially since they are constantly around and I mean constantly. My dad has been working from home since I was eight and he never leaves the house unless it’s to run to the market for an hour tops. My mom has always been a “stay-at-home mom” and only only ever goes out for groceries or shopping (except no shopping now with covid). And they’ll usually stay up until about 2 or 3 am and then my dad HAS to be up by 7am. Even if it means he wakes up just to come out and lay down on the living room couch. It’s so extreme that this pandemic hasn’t really changed much for them, which even they’ve acknowledged themselves. I just find this behavior really odd and strange, and it sometimes feels like my parents are physical and emotional prison wardens, trying to hold on to their kids. Especially my dad who still refers to my sister and I as “the girls”. And he’s constantly announcing when he’s home like that. Anytime I bring this up to them they just say that i’m an AH, and it’s an unfair and invalid opinion because this is their home and they live here. Which I completely understand and I don’t ask them to leave or anything, I just mention that they don’t need to “watch us” all the time. (My dad will literally watch me get into the car through the kitchen shutters). My dad just keeps saying he’ll always view me as his child who needs his help and advice (which i find overbearing). Honestly I just feel really fed up and confused at this point. Am i really the AH and blowing things out of proportion? Is it just my age and the circumstances? Is this a normal family dynamic?