Elizabeth Laugeson

your teen or young adult's social group will be determined by his or her interests and reputation

For teens with social challenges attempting to combat and overcome a bad reputation, two things need to happen: they need to follow the steps toward changing their bad reputation in their current social environment (see chapter 14) and they need to find another source of friends outside of their current social environment where no one knows or cares about their reputation.

Fortunately, the clues for identifying which social group someone belongs to are very much on the surface and easy to identify if you know what you're looking for.