Have you been love pranked?

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i don't know. in sixth form there was this boy whose friend would always shout stuff about him loving me across the building at me and say hello to me and laugh as though there was some private joke everytime i past. i don't know whether he really liked me or whether his friend was just taking the piss. i always thought the latter
i hated his stupid friend.

dunno if that counts. never heard of 'love pranking' before:/...

Yes. This happened to me two different times. Once in high school and once in college. Goddamn game-playing jerk people.
Like some other aspies, I am gullible/naive/easily fooled to the extreme, and I think that predatory people sense this trait and exploit it.

I can tell when a female is using that flirtatious tone, and I can read a female's body language to a certain extent (Stuff like fluffing with her hair, when the head is pointing slightly downwards, when they try to make contact with me over the most trivial things most people wouldn't even bother with, when they're acting slightly anxious around you, when they're staring at you, etc.).

Do I know how to respond? Doubtful. My typical response is, "You. Me. In my cave. Now.", which tends to scare them away. (I'm just joking, there.) My body language seems to be universally "unusual", so I wouldn't doubt that also has affected the ability to flirtatiously communicate.

Unfortunately yes.

The worst case as I mentioned in the Haven's teasing thread was the case of the boy at my 8th grade Catholic School who told me he loved me, called me hot, even at one point near the end of the school year told me he wanted to be the father of my children *shudders*. During that last semester he hooked up with a girl who was new to the school around February of that year and they were a popular couple so that only added to the confusion of why he was messing around with me like that all year. Eventually I started to like the attention I was getting from his teasing of me and admit to my girlfriends I liked him. Well, I guess being 8th grades makes us technically still kids and thus technically confused in our feelings and reasoning.

However looking back, I think the real reason I was love-pranked wasn't because I was unpopular or a loser and they wanted to humiliate me. It was because I came off to everyone (unintentionally as this was years before I even knew I had AS) as mean and antisocial and I guess the love-pranking was a means to get to my soft side even though they weren't serious about such feelings. Along with my AS my antisocialness was an emotional response to the severe abuse and harassment I received by classmates at a different Catholic School I was at just a year before.

Other times were minor. One of my sister's friends pretended to be stalking me in 6th grade (at least I hope it was just pretend). It was pretty creepy if you had been there. But all in all, the love-pranks I endured were more about giving me a hard time about my social discomforts than it was about humiliating me, but that didn't stop the latter from still happening.