And if Aunt May prevented Peter from having friends because she was worried about him, another retcon someone told me about the other day, why would she be worried about him having too quiet a life here?
I've mentioned that retcon from SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN. Perhaps May figured once Peter was in college, he would be able to have a more dynamic life. And May wasn't a total sheltered airhead all the time. She and Anna Watson went to see "Hair!" on Broadway.