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According to the British "Daily Mail": Lola Walters, a Washington resident, is legally blind, and suffers from a disease called nystagmus which causes her eyes to shift constantly, leaving her with double vision and no depth perception. However, the teen impressed audiences at the American Gymnastics Academy Long Beach Open earlier this year. "Most people I compete with don't know I am any different to them," Walters told the news source. "And as far as I'm concerned it can stay that way. If they don't know, they don't need to score me differently." Lola's mother, Beth, says that her daughter has been a gymnast since she was three -- climbing across the monkey bars with ease. It wasn't until she was already enrolled in gymnastics that Beth realized the extent of Lola's vision problems, and by that point, Lola was already a good gymnast.

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