Actually the correspondence Richard had on the AFT when he first went public is a perfect demonstration of this, and the same for ‘Peter’ and ‘Vineeto’. What incredible push back against well meaning fellow human beings demonstrating a different way of doing things.
I guess Richard never experienced a single ‘bite’ though and was obviously physically safe throughout all this discussion. So I wonder is it the same with ‘being’ naivete, that of course there is a world of identities that would demand one to be serious and yet it doesn’t have to count for anything at all.
It seems the ‘jitters’ are related to my fear of others. Of course naivete will not flourish if ‘I’ still feel deep down that ‘I’ have to remain on guard. Of course ‘I’ will not retire and go into gay abandon if ‘I’ feel that ‘I’ exist in a world full of dangerous entities.
And I can see this is a vastly different mindset to the one of naivete - a world full of dangerous entities where ‘I’ must remain on guard, almost as if ‘I’ am entering a battlefield vs a world where I get to meet fellow human beings and to delight in fun and intimacy.