How to deal with my 2yr old niece?

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She's like incredibly curious, all over the place, and is always trying to get my attention, where I ignore her completely, and am actually very scared when she comes up to me. And when she comes home I say "oh no, my peace has been disturbed". But I mean I know I shouldn't ignore her, it's just how I do things. But every time she calls my name and pushes open my door and starts talking to me I feel like covering my ears and disappearing.

If you had a small puppy which was curious and got into things, how would you respond? What if you thought of your niece just as a furless, smarter puppy?

What about her causes you to ignore her? You said that you know you shouldn't ignore her, it's just how you do things?

How do you know that you should not ignore her? Why do you feel obligated not to change how you do things?

Can you have a civil discussion with her parents that you are extremely uncomfortable dealing with a noisy 2yo?
You aren't obliged to be comfortable around her. A lot of people don't like toddlers roaming loose.

I would get mad & fuss the puppy & then pen her up which of coarse is very wrong for someone to do to someone else's kid. Before someone calls me out for being an a$$hole, I'd say I am NOT like that most of the time with animals. I'm usually very sweet & affectionate but when I reach my limit with them, it's best for both of us for the animal to be picked up so he/she cant get into anymore trouble & I can get my space to calm down. I feel the OP is stuck between a rock & hard place cuz he doesn't wanna be the mean jerk that I would come off as to a puppy but at the same time the OP doesn't know how &/or is incapable of responding in a positive way. I get this cuz I'm very uncomfortable interacting with little kids. I didn't even like kids when I was a kid. I feel magz has some good advice if her parents are understanding of you OP.