2024 Author: Adelina Croftoon | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 02:07
22 year old Brock Brown from Michigan has grown to 7 feet 9 inches (240 cm) and a few years ago was named "the tallest teenager in the world."
Brock has a congenital Sotos syndrome, a genetic disorder also known as cerebral gigantism.
When Brock was a child and went to kindergarten, his height was already over 153 cm. Now, due to his abnormal growth, Brock orders clothes from a tailor and sleeps in a specially made bed, 250 cm long. He also has a specially made for his height armchair.
Because of his gigantism, Brock is not just very tall, he is also very voluminous. He also has diabetes and finds it difficult to walk a lot.
However, Brock does not want to spend his life just as an unusual person, he dreams of opening his own restaurant one day. He recently landed another dream job at the YMCA Sports Center.
As a teenager, Brock grew at an astonishing 6 inches a year, and by the time he entered high school he was already 7 feet (213 cm) tall.
Brock Brown as a child
Sotos syndrome means a mutation in the NSD1 gene that causes a person to keep growing. Brock is still growing slowly every year and no one knows when it will stop.
Due to the same Sotos syndrome, Brock has only one kidney, curvature of the spine and narrowing of the spinal cord. Therefore, Brock suffers almost constantly from incessant pain, but he does not want to live like a disabled person on pills.
Due to medical problems, it turned out to be impossible for him to find a normal job, but he had long dreamed of working in a sports organization and finally he was taken to such a center. True, he only works there once a week on Saturdays.
"Having a job means a lot to me and right now it's my biggest achievement. I can't believe they accepted me."
Brock's job is to screen and assign children to sport classes. Brock's boss Megan Hunt is very pleased with his efforts.
"I have been working with him for over two months now and at first I thought he was a very timid and quiet young man. But this is definitely not the case. He has a sense of humor and does a great job at his own business."
Children and adults alike quickly fell in love with the unusual employee and he became even more famous in his neighborhood. Many people, coming to the center for the first time, immediately recognize it and say "Oh, you are that giant from the TV!".
"The sight of him always amazes them and they are especially surprised when they find out that he weighs over 500 pounds (227 kg)," says Hunt.
Brock is constantly slouching and his spine hurts all the time. It is also very difficult for him to straighten his knees. It doesn't fit in movie theater seats, car seats, and many other places. But he never complains. Brock Brown's Facebook page has over 18 thousand subscribers.
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