Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-15736398-20140815200340/@comment-4839682-20140815213010

AtDoc, is that you? :P

Your theory assumes that everyone is 100% correct and is not estimating, and assumes that nothing is ever retconned and must match up completely. The simplest explanations are that Emma is overestimating her age at Henry's birth, or, if they have the same birthday, that's kind of a huge deal that nobody's mentioned. XD

I believe it's season two, which is early spring 2012 in the show's time, when Emma starts referring to Henry as "eleven". This cannot be, if everything is 100% and never an estimate, if Henry's birthday is in October. Thus, not everything the characters say are "indisputable facts" even if we want them to be. There's no need to imply that someone else is missing something simply because they haven't drawn the same conclusions as you.

The facts don't match, and that's okay, they don't have to. It's TV. The ages/birthdates aren't important, outside of establishing for the audience during the pilot that Emma is connected to Henry.

It's not unreasonable to call it far-fetched, nor is it unreasonable to believe in this theory. Either explanation is plausible.