I am a terrible communicator. I'm so bad at talking that sometimes I feel completely paralyzed until I can sit down and decompress what I'm trying to say in writing--and even then, I have to understand what I'm trying to say pretty well to be able to translate it. People who only ever hear me reading my writing or ranting about things I've given a lot of thought to (fast writing) get a mistaken impression that I must be a great communicator--but they are only seeing me at the absolute top of my game.
To some extent, I have to keep myself writing to even be able to frame my intentions well enough to communicate them to others--and even still, if my intentions include, say, the generation of illustrated elements, it might be very difficult to put my intent into words. (Hell, it will likely be very difficult to put my intent into images.)
I find it understandable that not all communication forms nor individual successful or unsuccessful pieces of communication will reach all audiences, but I am constantly saddened to see how flippantly attempts at communication can be ignored. On the one hand, someone who loves popular articles I've written on a level of personally identifying with them will also feel comfortable totally ignoring my music, which to me represents my own personal identity much more intently. On the other, I can maybe trouble my mother to listen to some of my music if it isn't too boring, but she isn't likely to investigate my writing. Any of these are categorically people likely to complain if I do not communicate with them along grounds which they desire, while neglecting to investigate the communication I am already attempting.
It's not that I expect everyone who likes me to like or check out everything I do--I make a lot of stuff! I'm just always shocked at the sort of entitlement that anyone other than my mom feels they can evoke in demanding I approach them with communication in a form they can appreciate. Meanwhile, I've only ever just tried to say whatever I feel is inside of me in whichever voice I can find for it, and hoping that everyone will give it a listen!