The group’s bullying has a huge impact on the girl’s identity management and her interpersonal communication. Her self-concept is that she is smart and likely used to feel good about herself before she was bullied. The group of girls completely shatter her self esteem. They tell her that she is a nerd, fat, ugly, a hore, and has frizzy hair. After hearing this repeatedly she begins to hates herself. She accepts “these imagined or real criticisms as more proof that [she is] indeed unlikable”(Adler and Proctor, 39). She begins to think that everyone hates her. Because of this constant bullying, the girl will become more and more withdrawn. She won’t try to sit with people at lunch; she will eat alone. She won’t make eye contact with people in