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my world seems much smaller than the author of the piece, the thought of trust and judgement takes on a very different tone for me. I definitely evaluate who in the world I'm going to give personal info to, but less out of a concern for security and more a concern for my limited energy. I, for instance, don't tell my co-workers that I'm an anarchist largely because I just want to talk to them as little as possible, and would like to stay as mysterious as possible.

I do think the issue of trusting yourself is interesting, and there seem to be a few levels of it. On one is the idea of trusting your body, intuition, etc. in ways that dominant society says are incorrect, in ways that are meant to be solely the realm of experts and specialists. On the other is the idea of learning to not trust yourself when it comes to things that society labels as acceptable and appropriate. I mean this not only in terms of racism, sexism, (insert ism), work etc., but also in terms of something like self-image. Learning to distrust my sense of being one static thing, of being incapable of change, that something is just "the way I am", has been very important to my during my time as an anarchist.