Invasion of Privacy

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I have an adult family member (brother) who seems to display what most people would consider to be socially inappropriate behavior (invasion of privacy). He will disappear at family functions or other social functions and start wandering around the family members' home (into their private bedrooms) and at non-family social functions go into areas of the home where no party is taking place and look at that person's stuff. No theft is involved, but it is very strange and inappropriate behavior. He is functional in every other way (i.e. earns of a very high income, white collar professional with graduate degrees). Any insight into this and how to delicately handle it?

set boundaries to start.....

have a younger kid at the family function follow him around....

Aren't you close enough to him to just say "hey you really shouldn't be doing that" without him getting offended? Me and my sis are quite close, so something like that wouldn't be anything more than a normal suggestion. We'd laugh about it.

^^^ ask him if he is aware of it, and aware of how it seems to everyone else.