The connection is related to how we (logical minded direct communicators) use the modern alphabet to make communication efficient and streamlined as words and digital data. Humans in a noisy jungle or trying to use drums over long distances had to make repetitive patterns. Humans using sign language had to read body positions and faces in context to ensure small amounts of information were understood well enough. As direct communicators, you and I speak directly and expect others to focus on the direct speech, but the majority of people are expecting more emotional cues and body language, etc, to fulfill their needs of reconciling feelings with words and caching both in memory for contextual retrieval/reconstruction. You and I might use italics or commas instead.

Whether that makes them happier or us, I'm not sure.

I'm pretty happy working with tools when people leave me alone. I'm less happy in a crowd trying to all talk and gesture at once: especially when all is said and done and the party is over, nothing memorable remains except a hangover.

The crowd is ready to do it again and again and call it "fun" and "networking". Did I miss some communication? Probably. The overhead cost seems illogical to me, but they see my overhead costs (study, experiment, failure) as too high for them to learn the things I think they should already know.

Them: "How do you know all this stuff?"

Me: "How do you not know this stuff?"

Put that interchange into an emotional context, and I'm pretty sure roles are reversed.