In “Bullying as True Drama”, writers Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick describe how adults need to listen to the dialect of young people during discussions of bullying. They wrote this article for the New York Times in 2011 after hearing on the news that a 14-year-old boy committed suicide after being bullied mercilessly. This young man had asked for help, but many teenagers will not ask for help because “It requires acknowledging oneself as either powerless or abusive.” (Boyd and Marwick 362) Boyd and Marwick used their years of research of questioning and witnessing teenagers throughout the United States. The teenagers would say “there’s no bullying at this school” and would often use the phrase “drama” to label any social conflicts affecting