Experience does not give self knowledge

Experience cannot give knowledge of the self. Per shruti, the self is attributeless, nameless, formless.
Any experience reveals only name, form or attribute of some kind. Hence self knowledge cannot be gained by experience.
In fact shruti negates the very "experiencer" status of the self as mithya.

This being the case, experience has nothing to do with how the self is, hence one needs a different kind of means of knowledge, namely the shruti.

Hence never put the burden of knowing oneself, or judging oneself, on any experience you may have, You are free to have a variety of experience based on your karma,s but that doesnt tell us anything about the self, it has no link to the nature of the changeless self, that is consciousness.

While experience cannot give self knowledge, no experience in itself contradicts self knowledge, in fact every experience proves that the words of the shruti are indeed true. This can be understood by exposure to traditional vedanta, where the guru uses veda as a pramana.