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Story Summary
If Hudson Kietzman wants something, he has the personality and the energy to go after it.
The 7-year-old Columbia boy tells his parents he wants to be a UFC fighter when he grows up. They don't doubt him for many reasons, but one is the moment he forced open a locked wooden door to ask his mom, Shayna, a question while she was in the bathroom. He was 2.
“He is one of the most stubborn and driven children that I have ever met, and I'm not just saying that because I'm his mom,” Shayna said. “He’ll get stuff done if he wants something. He will.”
That event happened at about the same time Hudson was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and hereditary spastic paraplegia. Both are part of a group of genetic nerve disorders that can cause multiple issues — the most common being muscle spasticity, or extremely stiff and rigid muscles.
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