9yr. old asd boy loves violent video games and gore

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Hi All, my nine year old high functioning boy loves violent video games and gore. Weve had many discussions but havent forced him to stop because he loves them. He tells me he knows its not "real life" but I worry because hes had an eye for gore since he was toddler age falling in love with Holloween and its scariest aspects. Any like thinking people out there that can give me some perspective?
thanks
Dave

Um there is such a thing as boundaries, you know? Especially for a toddler. He shouldn't even have known things like that existed.

Sure I was obsessed with World War Two at that age but my mother made sure everything I had was age appropriate.

Either this is a poor kid or a good troll.

When I was three or four years old, I would often watch my dad play gory PC games like Diablo and Carmageddon. It *might* have screwed me up.

Yeah, that isn't good.
Take control, do more 'real-world' things with him and try and steer him off the violent games.
It doesn't matter if he knows they 'aren't real', the images are going into his brain and will cause him psychological damage.

I don't think this is necessarily problematic. Plenty of people who like violence and gore in their games, movies, books etc. would not hurt a fly in real life.

What can be problematic, is if there is a video game addiction substituting for real life. Playing video games is fine. Only playing video games is a problem.

Not sure that it's something to worry about. My parents were really permissive about gore and violence when I was growing up. I watched R-rated films from my earliest years, and it didn't affect me much (Predator gave me a tree phobia when I was four, though. ) I was obsessed with fighter plane video games at your son's age, and that didn't affect me, either. If your kid isn't aggressive (or showing signs of developing aggression), I wouldn't worry about it. Just reasonably limit his consumption and maybe look for other channels to satisfy his gore-obsession, which I have to say is pretty typical for boys. Maybe give him some surgery simulators.