Carter’s serious peanut allergy was reportedly diagnosed when he was just nine months old.

“We had him sitting on the counter, and my husband was making a peanut butter sandwich right next to him. Carter reached his hand inside of the peanut butter jar and he ended up smearing it on himself,” his mom, Shawna Mannon, told PEOPLE in February 2024.

“He broke out in hives right away – it was a perfect handprint of hives. And that’s when we realized, ‘Oh, he must be allergic.’”

Through exercising caution, the young man has been able to live a normal life, and he was delighted to have made it onto the Lake Travis High School Varsity football team.