You hold Ace-5 — a soft 16, meaning the ace still counts as 11. Dealer shows 8. The correct basic-strategy play:
The beauty of soft 16 (Ace-5): you cannot bust — the ace simply drops to 1 if the card is big. Against a dealer 8 (only 24% bust chance), your current total isn't good enough to stand on, and doubling doesn't pay against a card this strong. Free shot at improving: take it.
Soft hands are where most casual players leak the most: they play them like hard totals and miss every profitable double. Learning the six soft-total rows of the chart is the fastest win-rate upgrade there is.