But it's not at odds with your experience. It's an odds with "your" experience, where you arbitrarily redefined "your" (not that the conventional definition is any more rigorously defined, mind you...).

The reason why this all gets so convoluted is simply because it exposes how much we rely on terms and concepts that are defined very fuzzily, and often aren't even defined at all, but just accepted for granted as if everyone means the same by them. And then it turns out that we don't, which should really come as no surprise.