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Avoidance is a learned defensive mechanism to danger. Your nervous system is trained from early to respond by freezing because its intuitive it knows what it takes to survive. Unlearning it takes many years. But also, once you become assertive and empathic to yourself and others, people will rail against you. You'll be culled initially because people are comfortable with you accepting their abuse. But your value is not in tolerating abuse.