Parents don’t respect my autonomy

I am an adult that has the misfortune of not yet having the means to live on my own. I would consider it fortunate if not for my parents’ authoritarian treatment.

It’s like they don’t understand I’m an adult and instead continue to treat me like a child. They continue to think they know better than me, and I have no option to just ignore their “advice”. They force me to think that they know best. They even reprimand me for things that have absolutely nothing to do with them. It’s none of their business; I have no idea why they think it’s necessary to make my problems their problems. They believe what they’re doing so strongly that they will hold me at metaphorical gunpoint until I accept what they say. It’s degrading and terrifying.

I think I would know myself and my life better than anyone. I don’t know if they think they’re helping or if they think I “need to be taken down a peg”. They’ve reduced my self-esteem to the point where I get anxiety attacks at the drop of a hat. They think it’s caused by the generalized anxiety disorder that I don’t have nor have I been diagnosed with, but I’m actually suffocating from fear and frustration!