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As a vision disabled person, that's a FINE FUCKING LINE YOU'RE TREADING THERE, BUDDY! Let's, just real quick, go through some scenarios. .1.) I take off my glasses. I pick up a pan and try to make soup. Can I? NO! NO I CANNOT! It isn't infantilization to say I cannot make soup without my glasses! 2.) I take off my glasses. I go to my sewing machine and try to work on one of my cosplays. Can I? NO! NO I CANNOT! It isn't infantilization to say I cannot sew without my glasses! 3.) I take off my glasses. I go on a nice walk around the block. Can I? NO! NO I CANNOT! It isn't infantilization to say I cannot walk around outside without my glasses! Disabilities do disable you. There's a reason they're called disabilities. They make you unable to do things. Jiaoqiu is likely completely blind, which I am not. If I, someone who still has some vision, struggle to perform basic tasks like cooking and sewing without my glasses, you cannot expect someone who lacks vision entirely to perform those same tasks without an immense amount of effort and practice.

Now let's go over some things that ARE infantilization. 1.) Making him need help with simple tasks like bathing. I don't wear my glasses when bathing, and I get on just fine by memory. He would not need help with that. (Due to trauma, he should be at least lightly supervised for around a week to make sure he isn't a danger to himself, but that's a different problem.) 2.) Making him struggle in conversation. He doesn't need someone to speak on his behalf, and he is likely perfectly capable of understanding the other person's emotions using only their tone of voice. He would not struggle with conversation. 3.) Making his vision the center of his character. Blindness isn't a mental condition. It will affect how you go about tasks, not how you think. He still has a personality outside of being blind.

Making other characters lead him around is NOT infantilization. MANY blind people have service animals or service workers to help them. Those people are not made lesser by their need for outside assistance. (Also, point worth noting, "Great we got Hoyo disabled rep!" gives the implication that we didn't have any before, which we did. Both Herrschers of Reason from HI3 are disabled. Baizhu, Yelan, Qiqi, Collei and Xiao from Genshin are disabled. This is only counting physical disabilities. I don't know if that was OP's intent, but that was how it came across.)

Great we got Hoyo disabled rep!!! Let's not be fucking morons and infantilise them now mkay????