You struggle to speak up for yourself even when wronged

I know the swallowed voice — I was ordered into silence and had to learn to speak anyway. You were trained out of your own voice — taught by a world that punished your self-assertion to defer and keep quiet, so the silence is learned conditioning, not native cowardice, drilled into those a society prefers compliant; see it as conditioning, not character, and know that what was trained in can be trained out. Prepare your voice in advance, since it fails in the moment — think through in calm what you would say when wronged, rehearse the words even aloud, script your responses, so that when the moment comes the words are already formed rather than found on the spot. And start small, and let each success build the next — begin with low-stakes assertions where the risk is bearable, for each time you speak up and survive it you teach yourself you can, and the voice grows like a muscle through use. Where do you most struggle to speak up?