What are “Lived Experiences” vs “Exeriences”

[Anonymous]

"lived" is an intensifier meant to give your experience more weight than someone else who merely has a brief experience or observed or heard the experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An experience is something you did once (a vacation, a summer job, a robbery, a championship game).

Your lived experience is your experience of life in your world on a day to day basis (preacher's kid, farmer's daughter, lawyer's kid, foster child, only white kid in a majority black high school, individual with a disability or child of a disabled parent, 6th generation Harvard crew offspring who really wants to go to Princeton, child whose parents don't speak English, expat kid who was moved from country to country from birth and has no Passport for a place that feels like home).

One is an event; the other is an enduring life circumstance (which can change or may have).

Is “being athletic” or “musical prodigy” lived experience?

The mere state of being isn't. But if you were a musical prodigy who got to see the world because of your gift, talk about that. If you were an athlete in a small town that could have been the inspiration for Friday Night Lights, sure. (See? your "lived experience" doesn't have to be fodder for a sob story.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"lived" is an intensifier meant to give your experience more weight than someone else who merely has a brief experience or observed or heard the experience.

I once told a very political friend that I was supporting someone other than her candidate because I liked another candidate's background and I thought there was value in having legislators with a range of lived experiences.

She proceeded to write a blurb about her candidate that said, "X is familiar with the lived experiences of a diverse group of citizens."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An experience is something you did once (a vacation, a summer job, a robbery, a championship game).

Your lived experience is your experience of life in your world on a day to day basis (preacher's kid, farmer's daughter, lawyer's kid, foster child, only white kid in a majority black high school, individual with a disability or child of a disabled parent, 6th generation Harvard crew offspring who really wants to go to Princeton, child whose parents don't speak English, expat kid who was moved from country to country from birth and has no Passport for a place that feels like home).

One is an event; the other is an enduring life circumstance (which can change or may have).

Is “being athletic” or “musical prodigy” lived experience?

I'm the parent of a football player. I have a lot of experience with football. I've been to a lot of games. I've worked the chains on the sidelines. I've smelled the uniforms on the way home. I've taken my kid to the ER for a broken bone.

But my experience is very different from my kid's lived experience playing football. He know what it feels like to hit, for example, in a way I do not.

Similarly, I have lived experience as a parent. My kid knows a lot about parents. He has a lot of experience with parents, including me. But he doesn't have the lived experience. He doesn't know, for example, how it feels to watch your kid lying on the field and pray that they get up (in my case he broke a finger so he did!).

If I went back to college, I could write an essay about being a mom, but not about being a football player. My kid could do the reverse.

Similarly, my kid who is white could write an essay about how it feels to be him in a situation where racism rears its ugly head, but he couldn't write about how it feels to be black in the same situation, because that's not his own lived experience.

[Anonymous]

Zombie thread from 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a ghost. Can I write about my dead experience?

On this zombie thread, sure, write about your undead unlived experience.

lol perfect

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A “lived experience” is how you’ve moved around in the world. For example, if you’re a white, straight, middle class male, your “lived experience” is likely one where you’ve enjoyed a multitude of privileges and very few road blocks such as discrimination. You’ve likely never been profiled in a store or stopped by the police simply because you’re walking down the street. The images and role models of success that have been in the media since you were born have mostly looked like you.

An “experience” is just that. It’s a one-time event. An example might be that you were mugged on the way home and it caused you to think differently about your life in a profound way. Or maybe you had the “experience” of volunteering in a homeless shelter and learned things about yourself.

No one is trying to “get around” the SCOTUS decision. If you’ve read it, you’d know that Roberts laid the groundwork for this approach. Colleges want a student body filled with diverse experiences, and there’s nothing illegal about soliciting information about its applicants as they build their next incoming class.

That’s discriminatory. My kid is at an Ivy this year,
But I seriously thought he should write the misconceptions people have when see a white, 6 foot, athletic blonde blue eyed male.

Must be a toxic male. Must be MAGA. Must have been given everything in life. Must have had no struggles. Must be racist.

Kind of like what the DEI officer from Hopkins emailed around as a definition of privilege in a derogatory manner.

What we perceive to be on looks alone…oh boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “lived experience” is how you’ve moved around in the world. For example, if you’re a white, straight, middle class male, your “lived experience” is likely one where you’ve enjoyed a multitude of privileges and very few road blocks such as discrimination. You’ve likely never been profiled in a store or stopped by the police simply because you’re walking down the street. The images and role models of success that have been in the media since you were born have mostly looked like you.

An “experience” is just that. It’s a one-time event. An example might be that you were mugged on the way home and it caused you to think differently about your life in a profound way. Or maybe you had the “experience” of volunteering in a homeless shelter and learned things about yourself.

No one is trying to “get around” the SCOTUS decision. If you’ve read it, you’d know that Roberts laid the groundwork for this approach. Colleges want a student body filled with diverse experiences, and there’s nothing illegal about soliciting information about its applicants as they build their next incoming class.

That’s discriminatory. My kid is at an Ivy this year,
But I seriously thought he should write the misconceptions people have when see a white, 6 foot, athletic blonde blue eyed male.

Must be a toxic male. Must be MAGA. Must have been given everything in life. Must have had no struggles. Must be racist.

Kind of like what the DEI officer from Hopkins emailed around as a definition of privilege in a derogatory manner.

What we perceive to be on looks alone…oh boy.

Soo... no lived experiences then?

Can you discuss how you have overcome discrimination and oppression by our misogynist white supremacists society and how that experience has led you to commit your life to fighting against a "merit" based society

[Anonymous]

Lived experience is something that's part of your reality: someone who grew up impoverished and hungry has lived experience in poverty. Meanwhile, experience is something you witnessed that gives you expertise. You can't really be an expert at being poor, you just are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “lived experience” is how you’ve moved around in the world. For example, if you’re a white, straight, middle class male, your “lived experience” is likely one where you’ve enjoyed a multitude of privileges and very few road blocks such as discrimination. You’ve likely never been profiled in a store or stopped by the police simply because you’re walking down the street. The images and role models of success that have been in the media since you were born have mostly looked like you.

An “experience” is just that. It’s a one-time event. An example might be that you were mugged on the way home and it caused you to think differently about your life in a profound way. Or maybe you had the “experience” of volunteering in a homeless shelter and learned things about yourself.

No one is trying to “get around” the SCOTUS decision. If you’ve read it, you’d know that Roberts laid the groundwork for this approach. Colleges want a student body filled with diverse experiences, and there’s nothing illegal about soliciting information about its applicants as they build their next incoming class.

That’s discriminatory. My kid is at an Ivy this year,
But I seriously thought he should write the misconceptions people have when see a white, 6 foot, athletic blonde blue eyed male.

Must be a toxic male. Must be MAGA. Must have been given everything in life. Must have had no struggles. Must be racist.

Kind of like what the DEI officer from Hopkins emailed around as a definition of privilege in a derogatory manner.

What we perceive to be on looks alone…oh boy.

Soo... no lived experiences then?

Can you discuss how you have overcome discrimination and oppression by our misogynist white supremacists society and how that experience has led you to commit your life to fighting against a "merit" based society

^^^ see misconceptions and @ssholes

Looking at a kid you make assumptions. A kid that looks like this couldn’t have experienced tragedy. He couldn’t have come from a violent home with a single parent working two jobs. He couldn’t have been bullied in school. His family couldn’t have been eating government cheese. Just by being a white male, he is already hated by you. You have no idea what he has done in his life. You have no idea if they lost a parent to suicide, lost the family home, are on scholarship, etc.

Go watch “I hate Christian Laetner”. People thought he was a rich prep school kid because he was a white good looking kid at Duke. He came from a very working class family.

People think they are woke but they are even more quick to judgement and nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “lived experience” is how you’ve moved around in the world. For example, if you’re a white, straight, middle class male, your “lived experience” is likely one where you’ve enjoyed a multitude of privileges and very few road blocks such as discrimination. You’ve likely never been profiled in a store or stopped by the police simply because you’re walking down the street. The images and role models of success that have been in the media since you were born have mostly looked like you.

An “experience” is just that. It’s a one-time event. An example might be that you were mugged on the way home and it caused you to think differently about your life in a profound way. Or maybe you had the “experience” of volunteering in a homeless shelter and learned things about yourself.

No one is trying to “get around” the SCOTUS decision. If you’ve read it, you’d know that Roberts laid the groundwork for this approach. Colleges want a student body filled with diverse experiences, and there’s nothing illegal about soliciting information about its applicants as they build their next incoming class.

That’s discriminatory. My kid is at an Ivy this year,
But I seriously thought he should write the misconceptions people have when see a white, 6 foot, athletic blonde blue eyed male.

Must be a toxic male. Must be MAGA. Must have been given everything in life. Must have had no struggles. Must be racist.

Kind of like what the DEI officer from Hopkins emailed around as a definition of privilege in a derogatory manner.

What we perceive to be on looks alone…oh boy.

Soo... no lived experiences then?

Can you discuss how you have overcome discrimination and oppression by our misogynist white supremacists society and how that experience has led you to commit your life to fighting against a "merit" based society

^^^ see misconceptions and @ssholes

Looking at a kid you make assumptions. A kid that looks like this couldn’t have experienced tragedy. He couldn’t have come from a violent home with a single parent working two jobs. He couldn’t have been bullied in school. His family couldn’t have been eating government cheese. Just by being a white male, he is already hated by you. You have no idea what he has done in his life. You have no idea if they lost a parent to suicide, lost the family home, are on scholarship, etc.

Go watch “I hate Christian Laetner”. People thought he was a rich prep school kid because he was a white good looking kid at Duke. He came from a very working class family.

People think they are woke but they are even more quick to judgement and nasty.

And, yes, his best friend could be wrongly targeted by the police and he experienced that through his friend’s eyes, but he doesn’t know how it feels to walk into a store and be followed because the assumption is he may lift something. Even if he is empathic and sympathetic and heard from his friend these things, he has not lived that for himself and vice versa.

[Anonymous]

So, it really is all about proving to a bunch of bored admissions officers at elite schools that you’ve won the hardship Olympics?

[Anonymous]

I wish some people would tell us what their kids wrote in response to this question. Esp kids who grew up relatively privileged, suburban, white. What do kids say in this case? Not the son of a preacher man, not a farmer’s daughter. But the… kid of a federal contractor living in McLean playing soccer. Just for example!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish some people would tell us what their kids wrote in response to this question. Esp kids who grew up relatively privileged, suburban, white. What do kids say in this case? Not the son of a preacher man, not a farmer’s daughter. But the… kid of a federal contractor living in McLean playing soccer. Just for example!

My kid wrote zero about trauma or any hardship, etc. Frankly, I think it’s refreshing. They don’t want a class full of trauma victims. He wrote about stuff he liked, stuff he did, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s just newspeak.

Like homeless vs unhoused

Latino/a vs Latinx

It's literally century-old speak.

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No one said "lived experience" before ten years ago.