Sometimes the only permission slip you’re missing is the one you have to sign yourself.

Much of what you are waiting for is not being withheld by anyone. You are waiting for a signal that you are allowed, from a parent or a teacher or some imagined committee, and no such signal is coming because no such committee exists. The gate was never locked, only unmarked.

Name the thing you keep describing as not the right time yet. Then ask who exactly you are waiting on. If you cannot point to a real person with real authority over it, the answer is that the decision has been yours the whole while.