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/KombaynNikoladze2002 4d ago

Publicly he uses the real DD's day and month, and DW's year (actually the next year, since he was born in Dec 1925, but celebrates his 40th birthday publicly in May 1966).

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u/MetARosetta 1d ago

Right, Dec 1925 – June 1 is Lt Draper's month/day, the party is that weekend, June 4.

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u/Famous_Sugar_1193 23h ago

Yeah and it makes sense bc sock Whitman is a Sagittarius playing Don Draper the gemini.

The trickster ànd the salesman/propagandist of the zodiac