Fig. 1From: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia ScaleItem category characteristic curves (i.e., “trace lines”) for the eight TAS-8 items. Three of the items (TAS-20 items 11, 12, and 14) had neutral (“3”) responses that were not the most probable response at any point along the latent trait continuum, indicating that these response options were underutilized in our combined sampleBack to article page