Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
I don’t actually remember what I was doing when I was 11 – playing sports with my friends, reading a lot, doing okay in school and spending time with my family, I’d guess – but there’s no doubt that I was never as focused and confident as Jonah Larson.
Jonah began life in Ethiopia, abandoned by his birth mother in the woods and delivered to an orphanage by a good Samaritan. He was adopted by a couple in the United States, the Larsons, but spent so much of his young life getting healthy that doctors feared he would have cognitive delays.
Jonah “lucked out” (his words) in the family and the health department, seeming to bear no significant scars or delays from the struggles of his early life.
When he was five years old, Jonah found a crochet hook in a bag of his aunt’s old craft items. He took it, watched some videos on Youtube, and started working on his own projects. Now at 11, he’s got his own Instagram page with thousands of followers, and the Larson’s house is bursting at the seams with handmade knitwear.
He was selling his crochets online, but with orders stacking up 2000 deep (for real), he’s had to close temporarily to new orders – though he does knits gift for family and friends.
The people who follow him on Instagram refer to Jonah as a crocheting prodigy, and…
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