
To make life a little easier at home, Brenden's mom had a home built specifically to fit someone of Brenden's enormous proportions.
"It's a lot easier going through the doors and stuff than the last house we had," Brenden said. "The doors are a lot taller and so are the ceilings."
Coincidentally, on the day ABC News visited Brenden's school, his class was working on a soul-searching exercise. Perhaps not surprisingly, Brenden wrote that he wishes people would see "how he's just like everyone else."
Happily, some already do.
"He's really nice and caring," a friend, Tucker, said.
His stepsister, Sierra, added: "He's an extremely good person."
What does the future hold for him?
"It's unknown," said Kletter. "No other case is reported, nothing to look at -- it's an uncharted sea."