OCD: What Does a Neighbor Do?

I enjoyed this post from fellow Beliefnet blogger Hillary Fields about whether or not to impose when someone has, well, peculiar behaviors. In her post, "Good Neighbors: Respect Privacy, or Leap In to Lend a Hand," Hillary writes:

My neighbor has OCD--a fact I just recently learned. For the longest time I believed she simply hated me, or that she thought I was a psycho, and here's why: she wouldn't get on the elevator with me. We'd wait together by the elevator bank, the little indicator light glowing silently between us, and when the doors opened, she wouldn't move to get on. (After a few rounds of this, I'd even--discreetly--sniff my pits, but no, I hadn't neglected my deodorant.) Then I noticed that she would sometimes ride downstairs with me, but other times not. "Weird," I thought. "What is up with this lady?"

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