Professional stigmatizations

After interviewing for medical school across Canada, I am asked to re-interview at Dalhousie University because, I am told, my first attempt "was completely discordant from the letters about your character and your academic performance. Your marks put you close to the top of the applicant pool." I am also told they thought I was aloof. In return, I tell them that, during my first interview, one of the doctors took a consult. For about 10 minutes, he talked on the phone as the other guy whispered his questions, encouraging me to answer, but pushing his hand down when I spoke, as if I should whisper. Two weeks after my re-interview, I receive my offer to Dalhousie. If the procedural botch hadn't happened, and if I hadn't had good references from people with whom I'd built strong relationships over long periods of time, I wouldn't have become a doctor, easily weeded out of an admissions regime hostile to the non-neurotypical.