TEQ — Toronto Empathy Questionnaire
This is a short, well-established measure of emotional empathy — how naturally you tune into, and are moved by, what other people are feeling.
The TEQ treats empathy mainly as an emotional process: noticing others' emotions, feeling with them, and being moved to respond. It deliberately keeps to a single, core dimension rather than splitting empathy into many sub-types, which is why it's only 16 items yet holds up well against much longer empathy scales.
Developed by R. Nathan Spreng, Margaret McKinnon, Raymond Mar, and Brian Levine (2009) at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, and published in the Journal of Personality Assessment.
Empathy is one of the most misunderstood parts of a neurodivergent profile — many people are told they have 'too little' when they actually feel a great deal. Seeing where you land here, in your own words, can help separate how much you care from how easily it shows, which is a useful distinction to bring to the fuller picture.
This is a screening reflection — the kind clinicians use to decide whether a full evaluation is worth pursuing. It can’t diagnose anything. Your results compile into a free binder you can bring to a professional.