⚠ The TEQ measures self-reported empathy, leaning toward the feeling-with (affective) kind; it is not a diagnostic test, and not a measure of how good or caring a person you are. Empathy is a dimension with no pass mark, and a lower score does not mean you lack empathy — many people, autistic people especially, feel others’ emotions deeply while finding them hard to read or name (which is alexithymia, not an absence of feeling). Read your score as one self-portrait among many.