my father was overprotective. like, really, ridiculously overprotective. because he was scared of me catching hypothermia from a public pool, he never took me swimming as a child now i can't swim. because he was afraid of me falling off, he never taught me how to ride a bike now i can't ride a bike. because he was afraid of me burning myself, he never taught me how to cook or prepare food. you get the gist. i wasn't allowed to go anywhere as a child without parental supervision and if i was, it was genuinely under the eye of another adult they trusted highly. my dad's reasoning for this is because he dropped me on my head when i was young and he thinks this gave me my disability (it didn't, asd is genetic lol) so he became extremely overprotective as a result of that. i mean, listen, i love my dad to bits. we have a super close relationship. however, i really struggle to tell him much about my personal life and struggles because he overreacts, takes it personally, and i know if i'm sad he will be too. he still stops me from going outside a lot, makes me change clothes and asks i call him every 5 minutes even though i'm almost an adult. idk how he's gonna cope when i move away :'(
my mum is a loooot more relaxed. we're pretty much the same person in a lot of ways, so i think we get along more as friends than mother/daughter. the problem is this also means we fight a lot. we had an incredibly close relationship in my childhood where she would help me with a lot of the social aspects of life i struggled with and i owe my creative writing and essay skills entirely to her influence. in my early teens our relationship was terrible. i put an awful amount of pressure on her due to my depression, struggles with school and awful relationships with my peers and teachers, and it led to us fighting all the time and me going missing from home for hours without telling anyone where i was. now that i've gotten over that we've repaired our relationship a lot, though we do still fight when i'm feeling sad. but yeah, overall, good but complicated relationship w/ my parents!