How do you deal with someone who doesn't like you for no reason?

ignore them, its a waste of your time to try to convince someone that you’re worth liking.

Maybe you just don’t know what you did.

Otherwise, I don’t deal with it. Fuck ‘em. One less person I need to deal with.

I shut them down.

They become insignificant real fast.

It’s a challenge. Some people are more sensitive to not being accepted than others so it can be difficult to get over this. But in the end the effort you spend towards a person that has a grudge towards you will be poorly spent. Instead just try to continue being yourself without anger towards that person and it’s possible that if you are sincere eventually they will come around to respect and like you. If not, you haven’t lost anything but have saved yourself some grief.

I try to be friends with them but if I know that they will never be friends with me I move on. Although this hurts I have to realize that I didn’t do anything to harm them so their animosity towards me must come from themselves. Once I am aware of how they feel about me if I can I will still try to get along with them but after awhile I understand it is a losing battle so I stop trying.

aw thanx guys. that helps. i just started school and im trying to make friends and i just moved to a new area so im kinda feeling insecure. and theres this girl in my program who i know doesn’t like me. and shes friends with friends im starting to hang out with. i don’t know it just makes me feel like shit and i feel like i should act differently or something

Step 1: Accept that they don’t like you.
Step 2: Offer to talk about it.
Step 3. Move forward.

poop in their lunchbox.

got me through gradeschool…

As wonderful as I’m sure you are, not everyone in your life will like you… and that’s ok. Now, if this person is actively mean to you, you might need to eventually do something about it. If it’s just a matter of them not liking you, accept that and move on with your life. Be polite and civil at all times, but there is no need to try to change their mind. Good luck!

93% of the time in this situation, it’s because they don’t like what you represent, i.e., increased competition and decreased security, whether academically, socially, romantically, or professionally. Just you showing up activates this reaction in them; this is why you cannot take it personally. However, if pressed, they might not even recognize this in themselves, and might blame some faux pas you didn’t even realize you committed. The main thing is to show them you’re a human being and not an object that is displacing and encroaching upon them, and decreasing their relative value. You can do this by being humble and self-deprecating, not taking yourself too seriously, or engaging in playful, witty banter which serves to overcompensate for their negativity and insecurity in your interactions with them while simultaneously demonstrating that you are secure and not to be F’d with.

@mirifique well said.

I never expected to be to everyone’s taste. Yes, I do know of a few folks whom “everybody” loves—there are people whose kindness and goodness of spirit do make them everybody’s friend—but if you have a bit of an edge to you, it’s going to cut some people out of your circle. That’s all right. You just live with it. What else would you do? I am normally cordial but aloof toward the people who don’t like me, and I try never, ever to give them an advantage over me. I am quite content with those who call me friend; I don’t need many.

However, if you behave boorishly, treat people badly, use coarse language, or just go around routinely bruising the people you meet with never an apology, a lot of people aren’t going to like you. You’re the only one who can do anything about that.

just don’t pay attention to it. if you try harder to get them to like you, chances is that it’s only going to deter them.
i think a lot of people have had an immediate negative reaction to someone with no real reason behind it. maybe they don’t like your personality. maybe you just remind them of someone else. maybe it was a bad first impression.
whatever it is, just don’t let it affect you, and maybe they’ll come around.