Why is "my son is individual" not accepted?

When did individuell become synonymous with unabhängig? I think this is an error and will report it as such.

While not mutually exclusive, being a unique individual and being independent are far from synonymous, especially when discussing one's child—who may yet be a toddler.

Individual ≠ independent.

in English is sounds better to say "my son is an individual" rather than "my son is individual"

What about, "My son is unique!"?

i thought independent was unabhängig

This does not work: "My son is distinct" It should

This sucks! This was an introduction to a new word and independent is not one of the possible meanings of the word that was listed. I lost a heart because of this. The answer at the top of this discussion now shows the answer I typed, but when I was working the lesson, it took the heart away and because I didn't write 'independent'. And independent wasn't even listed as a possible meaning for individuell. What application logic caused that to happen?

I agree with musashiaharon, "unique" seems like a good translation here - but I got it wrong.

Oh this is really frustrating at times.

I'm with Svinda on this , my son is an individual, and yes why not a human being, we keep being blasted by colloquial German sentences which at best translate into very poor English grammer, nothing wrong with a little English colloquilism.

+osama0 what I asked too.

it appears to be an error-i'd report it

Auf Deutsch individuell ist in English individual too,und particular,distinct.

I put " my son is unique" thinking that would be a more natural translation - can anyone advise if it would be acceptable.