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Despite being diagnosed with autism, 17-year-old Qaisera Alexis has overcome the odds and working towards her dream of becoming a licensed pilot
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00:00I think I was around eight or nine I had read an article about a kid who was my age at the time who
00:22was flying planes and then I thought that's so cool I want to try that too and then sometimes
00:29it sunk in late after that that I could do this as a career and I was like why not the first time I
00:37got to fly an airplane was at a flight camp that I did in Wisconsin and then as I got to control
00:46and steer the plane I was just like wow this just feels so right once you're up there you can kind
00:54of just cruise let the plane do its thing so my mom asked me are you gonna let your child go up
01:03there and fly would you really let her fly planes that's dangerous and I thought about it and I
01:12just smile I just say yeah if any of my children were going to fly a plane Kycera would be the one
01:20because she's got the focus there's opportunities all around us we just have to rise above the
01:27circumstance we can do whatever we want as long as I can remember I've had an interest in aviation and
01:38something about being up in the air flying just feels really peaceful and nice to me so I know there's a
01:49sentence the saying if you do something you love you'll never have to work a day in your life and
01:56I want my career experience to be like that
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