I tell my friends who are gonna find out anyway. Like, my friends who have gone to anime conventions with me know 'cause I bought badges and fanart, one knows just 'cause she asked if I knew about it, I assume a couple know from seeing my likes and favourites on YouTube.
But the problems I have are these two:
My parents would understand me liking a cartoon, it's just that my mum gets a little annoyed when I watch things for "little kids". She is getting more understanding as she learns more and more about fandom, so I plan to tell them ASAP, but still.
I don't want to let most people at school know because I've always been bullied, mostly for liking things they say I shouldn't like at my age. I'm honestly not bothered by what they say, it's just the fact that they have always felt the need to bring that kind of thing up whenever they see me. It's mostly stopped since I started Sixth Form, 'cause I very rarely see those people since I don't have any lessons with most of them, but I have had a couple people say certain things just walking past me.
So, basically, I'll tell people if they're gonna find out anyway, but I wanna avoid people finding out if they don't know how to drop a subject <_<