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Aha this is a long one... Adding onto my post a little bit ago cause I was on the train and didn't have enough rant energy-
Bart has eidetic memory, or Hyperthymesia, or photographic memory, whatever works for you. He remembers everything he's ever read, seen, or heard, but in some of the comic strips, it's him being confused about a certain series or event that happened, like he didn't recall it almost, which is almost impossible due to his advanced memory. One of the most common symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder is memory gaps when in a different personality. You have no idea how excited I am about this cause I have DID and positive representation, yes please. When I find the comic strips I'm talking about I'll repost and add them in but I'm on a rampage rn. Not even sorry.
Bart is known to have mood swings throughout the entire Impulse series, where he gets grumpy or pouty, things like that, but that childish nature could actually be a personality. He could feel robbed of his childhood since he couldn't "live it" due to his situation growing up, so he creates an entire persona to live like a child in his teenage body. Everyone always brushes it off to him being "a speedster", and the fact that he is ALSO supposed to represent a character with Autism and his ADHD plus ADD, it all kinda adds up, because he switches into this person sometimes that's sarcastic and has a more bleak outlook. He still is always there for his friends, even if they underappreciate the HECK out of him, but it wouldn't make sense in the sense that he's silly only because of his Hyper-changing Autism. AUTISM ISN'T A PERSONALITY PEOPLE. Honestly? The excuse that it's because he's a speedster doesn't add up either. Being a speedster can make him bored easily and he has a hyperglycemia diet where he has to eat full meals every two hours, but it doesn't explain why he so suddenly shifts into entirely new moods. being moody is one thing, but being Bart is a whole new can of worm on strings.
I think one of the biggest things to show this is when Jerico shot his knee using the body of Deathstroke. Before the incident, he never wanted to take up Wally's mantle because he thought it was disrespectful and he didn't deserve it, but after he was shot he took no hesitation in taking up the suit. That entire comic screwed me over because: 1, no one touches my baby Bart. 2, everyone was so rude to him like 24/7?? To BART of all people. 3, that gunshot would've done a LOT more damage then what they diagnosed him. A SHOTGUN was TWO INCHES from his knee and blast him from that space and they gave him a prosthetic kneecap? Excuse me, there'd be nothing LEFT to ATTATCH IT TO, but that's a rant for another time. What I'm getting at here is he wanted to exact his revenge on Jerico, which is typical, I would too if someone capped my knee. But he read the ENTIRE SAN FRANSICO LIBRARY IN ONE SITTING!! Bart, who HATES sitting in one place reading anything that isn't a comic read an entire LIBARAY and not some normal one, this one was MASSIVE. He learned everything about the human nervous system and used it against Slade to his advantage, before it was revealed it was actually Jerico.
SO, he took on the Kid FLash mantle, something he said he wouldn't do. He read an entire library in one sitting, something he wouldn't noramlly do. He became incredibly serious about his mission, something he normally isn't. His kid Flash persona is not him. His trauma from the experience added with his stress must've forced a new one to form, since he already Had his "Impulse" persona it was easy.
Bart Allen has DID and no one can change my mind.
Bart: speeding into the house and locking himself in his room
Wally, utterly confused: knocks Bart, you okay in there?
Bart, nervously: Hahaha, yea! Totally! Whywouldn'tIbe?
Loud bang from inside
Bart: screeching
Tim, crawling from the air duct: WHERE'S MY CHICKEN NUGETS?!
Bart Allen: Okay, this is it. I'm battling a Evil supervillain trying to kill me and probably my worstest enemy.
Bart's mind: Make casual conversation and playful banter the entire time.
Bart:
Bart: Let's do it.
Thad: C'mon! We have to do this!
Wally: No.
Bart: Are you crazy?
Thad: Why?
Wally: Have you not been yelled at by Iris yet?
Thad: I'm not scared of her.
Bart: So that's a "no" then.
absolute silence in the room
Bart: Tim, have you given Kon his shirt back?
Cass: Probably not.
Tim: Stop patronizing me. hisses
Kon: That was my favourite shirt, bro.
Tim: TOO BAD!
Enveryone: silence
Bart: ...So pizza for dinner?
Cass: Yea, sounds good.
Kon: Mhmm.
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Cass, walking in: Morning hoes!
Bart: Language!
Tim: Am not!
Kon: Only on weekends!
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Tim: Ok, who gave bugs the right-
Bart: Insects have been around for aproxamatly 350 million years while homosapians only for 130,000 years.
Kon: He has a point.
Tim: It's a stupid point.
Bart: No wonder Blue Beetle takes over. Cause of people like you, Timmy Drake.
Tim: Wha-?
Kon: Respect your elders, Tim.
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Tim, texting the group chat: Yo
Tim: am I the only one online..?
Tim: Good.
Tim: Penis
Kon: Wtf
Bart: PROFANITIES
Cass: Nice.
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Bart, bursting into the room: WHO THE FUCK SIGNED ME UP FOR WEBKINZ EMAIL UPDATES?!
Tim and Cass: snickering to themselves
Kon: I'll give you one guess-