Social interactions of autistic and non-autistic persons are intriguing. The fact that people with autism and those around them occasionally manage to share things in life represents a remarkable achievement such interactions exist despite the lack of familiar ways of attuning to one another. In Autistic Company, the anthropologist and philosopher Ruud Hendriks himself trained as a care worker for young people with autism investigates what alternative means are sometimes found by autistic and non-autistic people to establish a shared existence. Unprecedented in scholarly work on autism, the...