According to Wrongplanet it will be when hell freezes over
All the talk about Connor's abusive/not abusive parents is really reasonable but I'm leaning more to the side that some of it (his dad trying to cut his dick off with some kind of pool toy?) is a flat out lie while the real stuff (his parents telling him to shut up in public and poking his fat belly) are extremely exaggerated.
His aunt knows all about these horrors, right? He said that in a post, and she did nothing but say "if it's really this bad, you need to call the authorities". Maybe I'm overreaching, but you'd think someone who heard their nephew they care for was being abused by the monsters he's made his parents out to be, she'd have either helped him do it, offered to let him stay, or done it herself.
A girl I was friends with for a long time was a crazy self absorbed liar too. When I met her in middle school, she told me her parents were involved in black masses, and they locked her in a coffin her father built and kept in his shed while they did their ceremonies on moonless nights. When the DC snipers were running rampant, even though she lived 3 counties away, she would post these frantic, breathless missives on Livejournal about how she was "literally almost killed by these maniacs" because she used the same gas station as a victim a month earlier.
That is, in my mind, Connor, someone who doesn't get enough attention from resentful parents and exaggerates all their faults (like his mother being an alcoholic for drinking at Applebees). If his folks really did all this shit? Then they're really awful people, and I'm sorry for the suffering he's had, no one, especially a child, should go through it.
But even if they did, it doesn't change the fact every conversation he has ever had anywhere he has gone his entire has been about Connor. When his mom told him to shut up at dinner because she was so drunk? It was because he started talking about his goddamned book again and I'm sure they are very tired of hearing about how great it is.