Toddler has always been pretty hard-headed. It should have come as no surprise that he would be independent at a rather early age. There isn't anything that we can do for him that he wouldn't rather do himself.
For example, this afternoon, he was trying very hard to keep his blanket from falling off of his waist after he's decided that he'd like to wear it as a skirt. He tried every different position that he could think of to keep it up and walk at the same time. So Girlfriend helped him wrap it so that it would stay up on it's own. That one action sent him into a tizzy that was indicative of the end of the world as we know it.