Dino Dan - vivid imiagination or delusional schitzophrenic? Discuss.
At least his mom is hot... guessing Dad could no longer take his kid's hallucinations and probably left without paying any child support.
Dino Dan is based on the life of of Ryan Hofmann. He is (was) a kid whose father was schizophrenic and mother was a fairly stable person to put it nicely. Ryan insisted that his father worked in a dinosaur museum but he actually lived in the CAMH in-house program. It 's widely believed that his father had "predetermined schizophrenia" in which LSD and marijuana was the catalyst. He also was obsessed w/ dinosaurs and rambled on endlessly to Ryan (many believe meth was involved) about dinosaurs. Ryan too became obsessed and was much like the 'Dino Dan' character. He knew and incredible amount of facts and would spend much of classroom time talking about and diverting subjects into dinosaur conversations. Some thought he was autistic. His vast knowledge of dinosaurs was cute and impressive at first but eventually became a burden on his teachers and eventually he began hallucinating dinosaurs and was considered a "major disruption" in class. To make a long story short, Ryan was placed in institution in 1998 where he remains. His little brother is mentally healthy and lives with mother who is a contract security worker.
Ryan's knowledge of Dinosaurs became a triumph after teachers learned he was unstable....maybe because of guilt or sorrow. One teacher wrote a short story about him and somehow it fell into a producers hands. The rest is history.
Ryan's mother tried to sue for profits and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Due to Canadian law, little is disclosed about Ryan but his legacy lives on in Dino Dan.
an interesting story. Unfortunately, for all we know, that's all it is.
Care to cite your source?
Also, this show should be canceled or boycotted. No child should be encouraged to have delusions. They should be challenged.
Re: No child should be encouraged to have delusions.
He is using his imagination. Children should be encouraged to use their imagination, just like I did above.
I am more concerned about how my kid will feel when he learns there are no such things as dinosaurs.
~ "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Re: No child should be encouraged to have delusions.
He is using his imagination. Children should be encouraged to use their imagination, just like I did above.
sesame street anyone...where adults and children alike talk to muppets, and all that....
susan
I found this today and thought it was funny:
http://flimsycups.blogspot.com/2011/01/bring-me-head-of-dino-dan.html
~ "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
I found that too after googleing the name ryan koffman and dinosaurs. very funny stuff though. I just watched this show again today with my daughter and was really disturbed by it (again) because it is more than just imagination. Dan talks about events as though they are really happening rather than him knowing the difference that what he see's isn't really going on.
Whats more is that people like his mom play into it rather than tell him the truth. for instance he told him mom he found a baby pterodactyl and is simply like "wow, nice". Now she is a cop but can't protect her child from horrible visions on t-rex's roaming the neighborhood. She isn't convincing me she is a good single parent, far from it. She needs to seek some professional help for Dan and for the whole family to learn to deal with 'Dan'.
Really creep show if you think about it to much...so I'm gonna try not to.
Whats more is that people like his mom play into it rather than tell him the truth. for instance he told him mom he found a baby pterodactyl and is simply like "wow, nice". Now she is a cop but can't protect her child from horrible visions on t-rex's roaming the neighborhood. She isn't convincing me she is a good single parent, far from it. She needs to seek some professional help for Dan and for the whole family to learn to deal with 'Dan'.
Really creep show if you think about it to much...so I'm gonna try not to.
I know that it's a cartoon...but the cat in the hat knows a lot about that....sally and nick tell their moms that they're going to the you know what( can't think of any names) woods, and she says oh, ok......so is it any different then that.....all the moms say is be back in time for dinner...so......really are we reading too much into this......
little kids talk to inanimate objects, and I'm told have imaginary friends....and all that kind of stuff....eventually they do grow out of it...
susan