I don't think anyone wants to risk not believing me, all things considered.
Had I been born in my parents' homeland, I would have been sequestered from the other children as soon as I started displaying my magic, been assigned to a keeper with a leash, and had my mouth sewn shut, lest I speak magic into normal people and corrupt them. The rest of our world is better about mages, but only by so much. This is, unfortunately, familiar territory for me.