Hello! I think your question is really interesting so I’m gonna try to give my opinion but please forgive me if my English is wrong! I always talk about the “LGBT+” community to include everyone. To me the + includes all romantic and sexual orientations and gender identities that belong to minorities. I agree that we do not face the same difficulties as other members of the LGBT+ community , hence the fact that we do not always appear in the initialism. (That being said, we can face similar difficulties sometimes, for instance if you are homo/bi/pan romantic and you’re holding hands with your same-sex soulmate in the streets, you may end up in trouble too). To me, including asexual people in the LGBT+ community is important to make people understand that asexuality is a sexual orientation, not a sexual dysfunction. So I don’t really know how to conclude but I would say that, sure, maybe we don’t need same recognition as other LGBT+ members, but we need recognition too because too often people don’t know about asexuality and they can try to make our orientation invalid which is exhausting. (Also: the letters LGB stand for lesbian, gay and bi people, but what about pan people? Actually there are a lot of letters we need in the initialism, hence the + in “LGBT+” that can include more people (in my opinion).)
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