I feel sorry for you that your father never got you that gift for graduating high school. My father got me an HP calculator and it's still one of my treasured possessions. It has had no negative impact on my success.
You can still get gifts but that comes from love, not as reward for something mundane.
My father has gotten me plenty of gifts, for a variety of reasons and sometimes for no reason at all. Don’t get me wrong, I love my dad very much and he is a very generous man :)