Should I tell my small group of friends?

[Fajita with Pretty OK Hair]

They're very accepting people, with several of them LGBTAP+, but I'm so nervous.

[sp4c34c3]

do it!

Make it sound really cool somehow. Maybe you can incorporate some inside jokes into it all somehow. An inside approach to it will make it better than just the typical bombastic means by which they would expect to hear. Afterall they are your small group of close (I assume) friends, they are going to be cool with it at least to some extent and you are going to feel better, probably even happy.

[Kazu]

I say so! Maybe there's a chance one of your other friends is also ace but doesn't know how to say it. And if you don't like the idea of directly bringing it up maybe you could do what I did and not explicitly come out but still let them know. My friends and I follow each other on tumblr and twitter so I'd talk about asexuality or reblog stuff about it with a few comments in the tags like "oh I think I fall under the ace spectrum!". Basically just saying stuff about it in places I know they would see it and eventually catch on. Or if you preferred maybe you could just make subtle hints at it when the opportunity arises. One of my other friends also did this way and the rest of us caught up so I think it gets the message across fairly well c:

[CrowWakes]

If not then wait until it comes up and be smooth about it

[Santoryu]

I would say yes. It's really awesome to be able to be open about your asexuality with your friends.

I honestly wish I'd figured my asexuality out a couple years sooner than I did, because I would have loved to have been super open about it with my friends in undergrad. Now I'm too far from them to hang out so I haven't had a chance to do it, and it's really not something I just want to text to them.