[Blindtlk] does this phennomenon have a name?

[Gerardo Corripio]

Hi listers: what's the name of the behavior pattern in which the mother 
keeps seeing the blind adult as a child without abilities to take his or her 
own initiative and without being able to think on his or her own? Have any 
of you guys lived with this pattern at home and how have you liberated or 
changed the person whose close to you so as not to continue this wayh? Is 
this pattern normal in blind adults? When the adult acts on his or her own 
there's a continuing fear of what the mother or whoever is close will say if 
the end result isn't what's expected provoking anger or the sensation of the 
mother grounding the "child" for something that wasn't well-done? Any ideas 
welcomed.
Gerardo