"For one thing, they all assume that you've had the normal experiences of a woman your age."
Parents and students therefore interpret the normal experience as failure.
Often it means knowledge that lies outside the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.
Others abide the question, but he is outside normal experience.
We seem to be dealing with something far outside our normal experience.
Here was something completely outside his normal, everyday experience, yet he recognized it almost at once.
There's certainly something of work here beyond our normal experience.
But then this certainly wasn't a normal experience, Tas reminded himself.
We are both associated with events totally outside their normal experience.