People who say hello to you a few times at school, then blank you for no reason.

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Just that really. Has anyone experienced this and how do you deal with it? It's so awkward.

I can think of lots of reasons, including not wearing contact lenses, preoccupied by some inner turmoil

The important thing is that its nothing about you...so you don't need to do anything differently.

I worry I’m like this because I’m deaf and may not realise someone has says hello to me first and so I look like I’m ignoring them!! I never intend to be rude but I’m sure it comes across that way sometimes.

I'd be this person. On a good day I can manage a hello or a nod. In the height of my anxiety around school I could barely get kids there never mind say hello

I think it is obvious if someone is rushing or preoccupied, you can gauge their demeanour especially if you have chatted before. Some days I am wrecked and notice nobody.
Though sometimes it is because they're being rude dicks because they feel like it.

Don't take it to heart. It's rare I see 'people' I normally see people shaped objects I avoid bumping into. Sometimes I'll surface and say hi to everyone I recognise with a smile but it's not predictable and definitely not linked to being preoccupied/rushed.

Luckily the parents in my youngest's class have clicked that I genuinely don't see them sometimes so I'm not lynched at the school gates!

Yup, like everyone says - you really must not take it personally. Most people aren't paying attention to anything around them most of the time. We all have very busy heads...

Sometimes my brain doesn't transfer faces from one context to another. I'm a parent governor and one of the other parent governors said hello to me a couple of weeks ago and it just didn't register they were saying it to me (they must have been filed in the "meetings" section of my messed up mind and not the "playground" section) and my brain make the "face - context I know them in - who they are" connection fast enough for me to reply! I apologised the next time I saw them because I know it feels crap if you say hello to someone and they blank you.

I also have been known to get confused if teachers are in the "wrong" classroom on a morning - which is a party trick they're particularly fond of doing to me - if the year 2 teacher is mooching around at the door to the year 1 classroom it can completely bloody throw me and take me a good couple of minutes to register who they are (and they teach my other child so I see the face every day)!

That one I partially blame on a lack of coffee and I swear they've now all taken to doing it to confuse me! Let's randomly go and let another class in to mess with the parents' minds this morning!

Oh shit, I do this. I'm normally preoccupied with a million jobs on my mind, rushing in late and usually realise a few moments afterwards that I know that person and didn't say hi. I wish I could be a bit more polished and ready but I'm not.

I think a major factor is the person has bad anxiety (in my case). Sometimes I feel like why would someone want to stop and speak or say hello to me? I won’t burden them (sounds crazy)
I think for normal people it’s because they want to drop the kids to school as quickly and efficiently as possible and are probably deep in thought planning their day.