self-reliant

The boy is unusually self-reliant and mature but also childish and understandably vulnerable.

Xi has vowed to make his country more self-reliant and not depend on "anyone's gifts".

And he accused politicians on both the left and right of seeking to turn this "proud, self-reliant country into a competition of victims".

The era of mega-fires is causing a little noticed climate migration that is reshaping life for thousands of people in California’s backwoods, pushing small, self-reliant mountain communities to the brink of extinction.

"We should become self-reliant - not out of desperation, but out of pride," he said.