Question: when you grow how come you don't feel it or notice? please reply if possible thx

Juan Carlos Lopez-Baez answered on 17 Mar 2014:

Hello @lolly1

That is a great question but, unfortunately, I don’t think anyone really knows. I can tell you that the growth is gradual, or in other words, it doesn’t happen from one day to the next, but it tends to be over a period of months and years. That said, during your teenage years (when you will experience the biggest growth), you can have growth spurs and grow several centimetres in a few months (normally a teenager can grow as much as 9 cms in one year!). This growth is so sudden that not even your brain realises about it and that’s why you become very clumsy, as it becomes more difficult to keep your balance and operate your body. It takes some time for your brain to adjust to it. To add to this, during this time, your limbs (hands, feet, arms and legs) will grow first before the rest of your body, which I can imagine does make the clumsiness worst.

I am sorry that I cannot answer your question better, but at least now you know that if you ever drop something you can get out of it by saying that growing makes you clumsy 🙂