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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is a type 1 diabetic. Has been for years. For a long time, I calculated every insulin dose, gave every injection, counted every carb, rushed to her side every time she needed an emergency infusion of juice. There's a statistic from Stanford that T1D requires an additional 180 decisions every day, and there was a period where I made every single one.

She and I both "experienced" diabetes. But we have different lived experiences. Hers is that of being a type 1 diabetic. Mine is that of being a parent to a type 1 diabetic.

If I were to write about T1D, my essay would be about monitoring, and sticking a needle into my child's flesh 20+ times a day as she howled, and learning so I could teach, and navigating lab tests and medical appointments, and standing in endless lines at the pharmacy, and arguing with insurance companies, and packing a medical go-bag every time we left the house, and giving over a third of my earnings to the juice box industrial complex. Her essay, obviously, would be different. This would be true even if we focused on moments where we were right by one another's side.

It's the first-person experience of an "experience." That's what makes it not redundant.[/quote]

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Amen 
AND bless you.

All of that real life and someone else is having fits over whether or not the word "lived" is superfluous.[/quote]

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