Slowly going blind

If 14-year-old Tara Smith could ask people to do one thing for her, it would be to not treat her differently.

Tara was diagnosed with keratonus, a degenerative disease of the cornea, two years ago.

Since that time she has lost complete vision in her left eye and has been left with 6-60 vision in her right eye.

But slowly going blind has not stopped Tara from winning several gold medals in judo this year.

She took gold in the senior girls open and silver in the senior girl’s 0.55kg division at the Auckland International Championships in June and was also named winner of the girls open at the North Island Championships in August.

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