Some people are hardwired to feel the emotional energy of entire groups of people. It is almost impossible for them to focus on the energy of only one person, and they feel lonely even when surrounded by their family.
Some are wired to feel no emotional energy at all, and torture themselves to fit in and appear “normal”. When they cannot, they take it out on the people around them.
Most people are wired to feel the energy of only a few people at a time, but very intensely. The energy of too many people overwhelms them, and no energy at all terrifies them.
In the end, everyone has a role to play in a healthy and complex society structure just as they are. Many of those roles have not been discovered or accepted yet.