Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25273017-20140809200340/@comment-4091815-20140816021414

JEK wrote: The point of this was, why was Allison making such a big deal over turning 17 (presumably making her a year older than the majority of that particular sophomore class) back in Season One, if her best friend Lydia was also turning 17 and had no problem with it.Not that it is uncommon in real life for people to be that age in that grade. Allison had been in that school for all of 3 weeks at the time of her birthday - she barely knew any of the people in her group of "friends" and was ashamed of being held back - not her age.

She also had a thing about birthday balloons floating out of her locker drawing attention to her. She was already the "new kid" now she was the "new kid with the party balloons in her locker."

Don't complicate things.

Lydia is 17 - will be 18 in a "few weeks" - her mom knows her birthday and it happens to fit with what we heard on the show before (shocking though that is for TW).