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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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).[/quote]

Is “being athletic” or “musical prodigy” lived experience? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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