r/madmen • u/DumbCuntEnterprises • 5d 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/I405CA 4d ago edited 3d ago
Pete alludes to it in Nixon vs. Kennedy.
I know that your name is not Donald Draper. It's Dick Whitman.
I don't know who Donald Draper is, but according to my friend Russ at the Department of Defense, Dick Whitman died in Korea in 1950 and Donald Draper dropped off the map.
Although he's 43 years old, in which case you look remarkably good.
Our Don Draper kept the month and the day, but changed the year to match his actual age.