u/Brilliant-Ad7985

Hey everyone, so I made a post last night talking about how my stepson is seeing and drawing scary images. He has some behavioral issues as he is also on Jornay for ADHD. He goes to occupational therapy aswell as behavioral therapy. Usually when he sees these images or when they talk to him it is always at night and usually when he is supposed to be going to sleep without his tv or phone. We have pushed it off to believe that he was saying these things to try and not go to bed or to even make sure we arent doing inappropriate things at night (a way to seperate us as he has been exposed to looking things up on the internet from cousins and friends at school). Until recently he was telling a teacher at school what he was seeing. This is the first time he has told anyone else besides us of what hes been seeing or hearing so it is VERY concerning to us. It is very easy for him to lie so I am trying to make sure he knows that me and his dad are right behind him and we believe him, of course it does cross my mind that he might be making it up to not go to bed because he is saying VERY specific things it is truly concerning us. Hes in an IEP program and the teacher sent the drawings home after she asked him to draw what he was seeing. Ive seen a lot of comments saying it could be monsters from Roblox. He had access to Roblox early on and when he goes to his moms house, there is no parental control over there (Dad has full custody). He is not allowed to watch scary movies or anything scary but he has in the past at his cousins or things that his friends have shown him at school. Hes drawn to scary things like horror movies, IT, and characters from scary movies we have stopped all connection for him to see or watch any of those movies or shows at the house. I have since deleted the post so kinda wanted to explain a bit for people who are reading this for the first time. There was a ton of comments about Roblox characters and characters from scary movies. I want to know some other opinions if this has ever happened to them with a child whos played Roblox before. (He has no access to Roblox in our house but has access to it at the other house from cousins phones and tvs). I will also say since he has drawn this at school, he told the teacher he has been seeing this "monster" since the age of 6, he is 9 now.

The first photos are of when the teacher asked him to draw the "monsters" and what they were saying to him. The next drawings are drawings from his notebooks that I found and the last images are images of the Roblox characters I found on Google, kinda resembling what hes been drawing. Please let me know your opinions.

Also when he has come in the room to tell us about what hes seeing he describes them as they have a huge smile from ear to ear. He has also talked about a tall man with a hat and a clown (we associated with IT) being in our backyard. He has a cross in his room that he hangs up and we have even talked about saging the whole house to make him feel more comfortable. These monsters are not talked about in the day, usually at night starting around 9/10pm around his bedtime.

Hey everyone, so I made a post last night talking about how my stepson is seeing and drawing scary images. He has some behavioral issues as he is also on Jornay for ADHD. He goes to occupational therapy aswell as behavioral therapy. Usually when he sees these images or when they talk to him it is always at night and usually when he is supposed to be going to sleep without his tv or phone. We have pushed it off to believe that he was saying these things to try and not go to bed or to even make sure we arent doing inappropriate things at night (a way to seperate us as he has been exposed to looking things up on the internet from cousins and friends at school). Until recently he was telling a teacher at school what he was seeing. This is the first time he has told anyone else besides us of what hes been seeing or hearing so it is VERY concerning to us. It is very easy for him to lie so I am trying to make sure he knows that me and his dad are right behind him and we believe him, of course it does cross my mind that he might be making it up to not go to bed. Hes in an IEP program and the teacher sent the drawings home after she asked him to draw what she was seeing. Ive seen a lot of comments saying it could be monsters from Roblox. He had access to Roblox early on and when he goes to his moms house, there is no parental control over there (Dad has full custody). He is not allowed to watch scary movies or anything scary but he has in the past at his cousins or things that his friends have shown him at school. Hes drawn to scary things like horror movies, IT, and characters from scary movies we have stopped all connection for him to see or watch any of those movies or shows at the house. I have since deleted the post so kinda wanted to explain a bit for people who are reading this for the first time. There was a ton of comments about Roblox characters and characters from scary movies. I want to know some other opinions if this has ever happened to them with a child whos played Roblox before. (He has no access to Roblox in our house but has access to it at the other house from cousins phones and tvs). I will also say since he has drawn this at school, he told the teacher he has been seeing this "monster" since the age of 6, he is 9 now. The first photos are of when the teacher asked him to draw the "monsters" and what they were saying to him. The next drawings are drawings from his notebooks that I found and the last images are images of the Roblox characters I found on Google, kinda resembling what hes been drawing. Please let me know your opinions

Also when he has come in the room to tell us about what hes seeing he describes them as they have a huge smile from ear to ear. Usually a tall man with a hat and a clown we associated with IT. He has a cross in his room that he hangs up and we have even talked about saging the whole house to make him feel more comfortable.

Every night my 9 year old son goes to sleep around 10pm. We take his phone and Tv remote and play sleeping sounds on the Tv. Usually my husband will even lay with him for 30 minutes or so just so he can fall asleep. There has been a lot of times where he has come into our room after putting him in bed saying that he is seeing things and he is scared. We have made changes to try and help him, his dad sleeping in his room with him all night or even some nights just letting him have the remote so he can watch Tv. We have usually brushed it off as he is bored and doesnt want to go to sleep just cause we took his phone and remote away so we tell him to go back to bed and to close his eyes. (Also when we give him the remote back he doesnt come in the room again or does not mention the monster again at all) We arent allowed to close our door at night aswell because he has looked up things on the internet and has a sense of what partners may do at night with each other aswell (I am not the biological mother so he has a protection over his dad). We thought this was why he was saying he was always scared at night until recently becaue he didnt want us alone with the door closed. He usually would come in our room 5 times before he actually goes to sleep and has admitted that he does it to make sure we arent doing any "weird" things. Over the past week he has been telling his teacher at school some concerning things. He told her that he's seeing things at night and she asked him to draw them. He has ADHD and we do not allow him on the internet to search things but when he goes to his family members houses (cousins around the same age) we have no control over what he watches or what they show him. When he is over there they also all sleep together in one room as they have a lot of family members there so we thought it might be because he is on one side of the house and we are on the other. The teacher has sent us home two drawings that he has drawn over the past week and explaining what hes seeing at night (He draws "monsters" all the time in his notebooks and journals). Before he would say theres a tall man outside that we kinda registered to be known as Slenderman and a clown who we figured was IT from the movies. What he drew recently was different "monsters" that he sees that we havent heard of. I am looking for any type of advice on how to go forward with this. We want to believe him and honestly what he drew recently has us scared aswell. He has ADHD, is in an IEP program at the school, goes to occupational therapy and behavioral therapy aswell. He has always been drawn towards scary things and drawing scary things. He has a slight obsession with horror even though he is not allowed to watch any when he is with us. I just need help and advice.
First 3 photos are what he drew for the teacher and the other photos are things he has just drawn in class.

Every night my 9 year old son goes to sleep around 10pm. We take his phone and Tv remote and play sleeping sounds on the Tv. Usually my husband will even lay with him for 30 minutes or so just so he can fall asleep. There has been a lot of times where he has come into our room after putting him in bed saying that he is seeing things and he is scared. We have made changes to try and help him, his dad sleeping in his room with him all night or even some nights just letting him have the remote so he can watch Tv. We have usually brushed it off as he is bored and doesnt want to go to sleep just cause we took his phone and remote away so we tell him to go back to bed and to close his eyes. (Also when we give him the remote back he doesnt come in the room again or does not mention the monster again at all) We arent allowed to close our door at night aswell because he has looked up things on the internet and has a sense of what partners may do at night with each other aswell (I am not the biological mother so he has a protection over his dad). We thought this was why he was saying he was always scared at night until recently becaue he didnt want us alone with the door closed. He usually would come in our room 5 times before he actually goes to sleep and has admitted that he does it to make sure we arent doing any "weird" things. Over the past week he has been telling his teacher at school some concerning things. He told her that he's seeing things at night and she asked him to draw them. He has ADHD and we do not allow him on the internet to search things but when he goes to his family members houses (cousins around the same age) we have no control over what he watches or what they show him. When he is over there they also all sleep together in one room as they have a lot of family members there so we thought it might be because he is on one side of the house and we are on the other. The teacher has sent us home two drawings that he has drawn over the past week and explaining what hes seeing at night (He draws "monsters" all the time in his notebooks and journals). Before he would say theres a tall man outside that we kinda registered to be known as Slenderman and a clown who we figured was IT from the movies. What he drew recently was different "monsters" that he sees that we havent heard of. I am looking for any type of advice on how to go forward with this. We want to believe him and honestly what he drew recently has us scared aswell. He has ADHD, is in an IEP program at the school, goes to occupational therapy and behavioral therapy aswell. He has always been drawn towards scary things and drawing scary things. He has a slight obsession with horror even though he is not allowed to watch any when he is with us. I just need help and advice.
First 3 photos are what he drew for the teacher and the other photos are things he has just drawn in class.