People that go out of their way to be overly-patronizing to someone because they're overly worried about what someone else who really probably doesn't have a clue thinks of them if they dont is pretty selfish, imo.

Your parents love you very much! Please try to talk to them again? Encourage them to speak about how independent you are versus their fears of judgement. Remind them that you are just trying to be the person you want to be. If they try to help you when you don’t want it, firmly but lovingly remind them that you are fine. Again, it sounds like your parents care about you a ton. Peace to you!

(Note that this is all just my assumption based on info from this post and my personal experiences, this could be way off). I would say they mean well and think they are trying to help, but just don’t realize they’re doing the exact opposite lol. People seem to think “Oh they’re blind, they can‘t do anything by themselves,” but that’s just wayyy not true. Also, the actual way to guide people is for the sighted person to hold out THEIR elbow and the blind person intentionally grab it. I’d suggest just talk with them about it and explain the proper way.

I struggle with this with my kid. I want to help him all the time but he really really doesn’t need it. I’ve hindered him by volunteering to help before he asks. It’s something I’m working on because he’s 14 and needs to learn to advocate for help, not just assume it will come. Have you talked to your parents about some boundaries and the fact that you need to be allowed to do your own thing?

If it helps this is pretty common. I don't know what the background to this situation is but I have had three good buddies, all young women, who had very much the same problem when they went from having good sight to not. It pretty much happens to everyone.

What's really important is that you are a master of your own destiny. In the case of one of my buddies her parents ended up helping so much it was affecting her ability to get good at using the cane so it is definitely something to get to grips with. Sometimes it comes at a certain age and honestly it's just another aspect of kids becoming independent, but I don't know if this applies to you.

What I would suggest is that you gently put up with it until you can get your parents alone and have a sit down and a good chat with them about it. It is really really important that you do that in a very calm and reasonable way, using a very level tone of voice, and staying that way even if your parents have a shit fit about it. You need to be the one who seems in control and you don't want to upset anyone, but you do need to be gently firm and decisive. That's important for you in the long term so I bet you can pull it off, and I bet they will understand.

Does that help?

They insist helping because you look disoriented. Its not normal for blind or sighted people to run against stuff or people. I also feel frustrated when my family or strangers insist in helping with situations I'm capable of hanling independently. MOST of them understand that I am blind, and that it's my right to request assistance when I need it, and others pity me because of my blindness.
At one point of my life, I also stayed away from visiters because I didn't want to be perceived as hopeless.

Wow, as being the other way around I totally can see where they are coming from, in the sighted world everyone who doesn’t know you thinks that your “caretakers” are being negligent by not helping you out. My mother was blind and I was always looked at when I wasn’t helping her out with things she was clearly fine doing on her own. “Oh my goodness maam do you need help? I can’t believe your daughter left you here in the pool alone…” like my mom was a better swimmer than me. “Oh my gosh, did your child just leave you standing by the playground, do you need help to a bench, your daughter needs to be more accommodating to your needs… we went to that park my whole childhood and the bench never moved, she knew she could follow the border of the playground and where to find the bench, if not she would ask me herself to sit her at the bench, mind you this went on from the time I can remember as a young child. Seems like they just don’t want to deal with outsiders who don’t know their place.

You almost ran into your dad, and then you pushed him back when he tried to help? Running into people is not okay, perhaps using your cane will prevent you running into them. Like you, and most of us here, I don't use my cane while at home, but if there are visiters or if I'm running into people I use it.

Sounds like they have some personal issues to work out regarding feeling judged, I’m sorry they are being so patronizing and embarrassing. I can’t promise it will change anything but maybe try talking openly with them about how this makes you feel, think your words through carefully so they don’t come out too emotionally charged because you don’t want to hurt them you just want them to get your point of view a little better.