Who decreed those milestones???
I thought milestones were more like, eating solid food, sitting up, crawling, walking, talking, etc.
Those type of things HAVE to happen in a healthy developing human.
The "milestones" you mentioned are completely OPTIONAL goals...
I know women who plan to get married and become stay at home moms...
They wouldn't view a lack of Ivy League education and career as missing any particular milestones...
How do I deal?
I've tweaked my goals, to suite my needs. Which was actually pretty damn easy since I could never make up my mind and stick to a path to begin with.
Stupid identity disturbance.
I'm admittedly not moving along this path as fast as I had hoped, and I have to remind myself not to compare... Because *****it, I have boulders in my road other people don't have to contend with!