@ver_gillo@SymplyTonbra@SiezerW Perhaps it wasn't always like this. If I'm not mistaken, she says she got lost from her parents and learned to orient herself by navigating the earth with the badger-moles. Her parents' overprotectiveness may have started there.
Toph's backstory doesn't make much sense. She ran away from home and stumbled upon the badgermoles who taught her earthbending.
Toph was born to wealthy and overprotective parents so tell me how a little blind girl managed to bypass a team of security guards only to end up in deep underground caverns where the badgermoles reside all by herself?