It is an inconvenience. Be inconvenient. The people who expect and demand of you that you be quiet and take no space while they loudly spread out are not the people you should be catering to. And these are usually the type of people who will have a ‘problem’ with you claiming your right.
They will try to justify their unfair and unreasonable rules and requests the way a fair and reasonable person would theirs. So that they can seem sensible and as though you are the problem being problematic. Therefore, you must see through and past this. Have and apply your own judgment.
How valid is what they propose? Does it take you and/or others who also matter into account, or only (or mostly) them and who they deem worthy? How do they even measure anyone or anything’s worthiness? Is it downright selfishness and other vices driving them or are they making any valid point at all?
Shame and guilt tend to be the vias through which many will have you cornered and shrinking. Because, again, in other contexts, these are legitimate indicators that something is wrong or could be better. However, when they are merely used to push an agenda, they are no more than manipulation and coercion tactics. And if you pay close attention, you’ll notice how shallow and distorted they are instead of appropriately substantiated and structured to carry some real weight.
Besides knowing this, you ought to be firm about how you and more matters too. Crippling doubts and poor esteem are venues through which anyone can come in and steal from you or dump on you. This is why also, along with using shame and guilt as instruments, people seeking to disregard you will viciously attack your confidence too. And even if it’s not meant with those goals in mind, you must watch out for other jabs that, albeit small by comparison, also chip at it over time and when repeatedly allowed. “You’re being arrogant.” It is sometimes code for: “Humble yourself down so that I can do whatever I want with you or regardless of you.”
Certainly, you should strive to be lucid and not turn into another deluded person who’s more of an affliction than they are an alleviation. Somehow, despite that, under the impression that it makes them more valuable (or desperately trying to convince themselves and others of such). But if you’re sincerely doing your part genuinely for the better, then not only is it a right, but a moral obligation to stand your ground and speak up where and when it counts.
