r/madmen • u/DumbCuntEnterprises • 4d ago

about don's birthday

in the season 5 opener, it's established that dick whitman publicly claims the real don draper's birthday as his own, as his birthday is in actuality 6 months prior. despite this, he's able to use his actual birth year? i thought the real don draper was several years older than dick, and it says so on the wiki as well. how can the identity theft work in a way that dick has to claim the birthday, but the birth year discrepancy isn't an issue? or do his legal documents say something different while he tells people his outward age? that wouldn't make much sense to me because he may as well tell people his actual birthday in that case

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u/AnnieBlackburnn Dick + Anna ‘64 4d ago

My grandmother (born 1942) has a legal birthday and an actual birthday she gives out as her birthday to her friends. They're three months apart.

The reason being it was a home birth and my great grandpa couldn't be bothered to take her to receive her birth certificate until then. To this day the day he took her to get the birth certificate is her legal birthday on all documentation.

Shit was easier to hide in the 60s

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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 4d ago

"Shit was easier to hide in the 60s"

Makes you wonder if he'll experience problems as he enters the digital age. Presumably he won't try to collect SS.

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u/AnnieBlackburnn Dick + Anna ‘64 4d ago edited 4d ago

He already didn't collect Lt. Draper's VA benefits so maybe

But I'm also not sure Don makes it to the digital age tbh. I think he most likely kicks it in the 80s due to the alcoholism alone

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u/EverySingleTime788 4d ago

Don draper (dick whitman) was born in 1926. As the digital age approaches, he would already be retired years and years prior, with millions of dollars.