Why no comments?

People are asking me why I disabled the comments feature on this blog. (Yes, I did. I deliberately searched for, downloaded, and installed a plugin to completely disable comments, before I even published my first post.)  

I don’t actually know why. I can guess why. Here are some guesses:

• The Aspie side of me just wants to monologue*
• There are certain friends and family members whose comments I don’t want to read**
• If I allowed comments, then there wouldn’t be any, and then I’d be sad
• It would be too much like Facebook, which is currently on my shit list

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*Aspie is short for Asperger’s Syndrome, with which I have self-identified (to a slight extent). It is no longer an officially sanctioned term, but generally refers to having some autistic-like traits, without actually having enough traits to qualify for an autism diagnosis.  One of those traits, that some Aspies have, is a tendency to talk at people, at length, about one’s own interests, rather than engaging in small talk or other kinds of back-and-forth conversations with lower content value and/or less depth.  Some Aspies just like to think hard and then share in detail.

**You’re worried this refers to you, aren’t you?  No, it’s not you.  Of course it’s not you.  Geez!