First off this is a throwaway so this is not for karma or attention. I posted this in another thread and I feel it's time to confront it once and for all, Read this story and imagine yourself in my shoes.

This is coming from a guy who's never really approached a girl before, never had a girlfriend and never gone on a date but have been told by many girls that I'm good looking.

I asked out a girl in high school she said yes and we became boyfriend and girlfriend for maybe 5 minutes then in front of everyone she told me it was all a practical joke and that she would never date me.

I was devastated, and I think that caused some permanent damage, I never really got over it because now even when a girl says she likes me or she thinks I'm cute theres always part of me that says its all a joke and it's going to blow up on me.

*tl;dr version of the story: asked out a girl in high school said yes, then 5 minutes later said she was joking in front of everyone, never recovered from it.*