Ill start this one off with just a personal question thats been bugging me for awhile now.

My first name, middle name, and last name all reduce down to master numbers.  
it goes 22, 11, 11

now I've done some research and noted that some numerologists find that these numbers should just be reduced down to their basics, and be ignored. But others think that they hold a high spiritual energy and contribute to a persons numerological reading.  

What are you opinions? and, relating to my personal question, would it even matter that my first name, middle, and last each add up to their different master number?  Or should i just drop it and look at the bigger picture...

ignore nothing, embrace everything that you discover  within yourself .for numerology as with all occult sciences are self help tools designed to in power us  . if your true age is 17 keep studying the knowledge you will uncover is awesome and will benefit you and others as well. and if these higher vibration are a part of you ,though hard work and time they will show themselves to you .  but be ready to be burdened its not a easy life to live . a calling that requires service and strength .main thing is to find source energy from which we came and stay connected to it always .....

each letter/ number within your date of birth and name has a meaning and is apart of you  double digit numbers have meanings as well .play with these numbers and see what they revile to you .know thyself .study ,meditate, pray   and much will be reviled  .

full name at birth can be broke down into ( physical mental and spiritual )planes    first middle last    

11
Highly intuitive, even psychic, this Master number is a channel between the sub-conscious and the conscious mind. Highly charged. Can be neurotic.

22
The Master Builder; this Master number is demanding and obsessive, it can push you to the edge. Much progress is possible. A need to devote yourself to something larger than life.

44 as a over all ( expression  number)  

it is an excellent number for business, and it is also good for a military career. It is a visionary and a doer. It has great

The number 11 represents the vision.
The number 22 combines vision with action
The number 33 offers guidance  to the world.

The 11 is the most intuitive of all numbers. It represents illumination; a channel to the subconscious; insight without rational thought; and sensitivity, nervous energy, shyness, and impracticality. It is a dreamer. The 11 has all the aspects of the 2, enhanced and charged with charisma, leadership, and inspiration. It is a number with inborn duality, which creates dynamism, inner conflict, and other catalyses with its mere presence. It is a number that, when not focused on some goal beyond itself, can be turned inward to create fears and phobias. The 11 walks the edge between greatness and self-destruction. Its potential for growth, stability, and personal power lies in its acceptance of intuitive understanding, and of spiritual truths. For the 11, such peace is not found so much in logic, but in faith. It is the psychic's number.

The 22 is the most powerful of all numbers. It is often called the Master Builder. The 22 can turn the most ambitious of dreams into reality. It is potentially the most successful of all numbers. It has many of the inspirational insights of the 11, combined with the practicality and methodical nature of the 4. It is unlimited, yet disciplined. It sees the archetype, and brings it down to earth in some material form. It has big ideas, great plans, idealism, leadership, and enormous self-confidence. If not practical, the 22s waste their potential. Like the 11, the 22 can easily shrink from its own ambition, causing difficult interior pressures. Both the 11 and the 22 experience the pressure-cooker effect very strongly, particularly at an early age. It must work toward the realization of goals that are larger than personal ambition. The 22 serves the world in a practical way.

expression number reveals your physical and mental constitution, the orientation or goal of your life.
expression number reveals your inner goal, the person you aim to be.
Expression number reveals the talents, abilities, and shortcomings that were with you when you entered your human body. Your name, and the numbers derived from it, reveal your development, as well as the talents and issues you will be working with during this life.

your expression number again is a 44/8
It is an excellent number for business, and it is also good for a military career. It is a visionary and a doer. It has great potential.

8 expression
You have the power and potential to achieve great things. It is both your challenge and your birthright to gain dominion over a small part of the earth. Whatever your enterprise, you strive to be the best and most successful in your field. You are highly competitive and will not rest until you are satisfied that you have bypassed the opposition. You enjoy challenges and rivalry.

You are a realist and a visionary planner. Money and authority are available to you if you are willing to discipline yourself - generally an inborn talent - and persevere in the face of the considerable obstacles in your path.

You are dynamic and have a talent for efficiency. You understand the larger picture, see the broader challenges, and know how to marshal your collective resources to address the problems. You delegate responsibility well; it is best for you to leave many of the details to others.

You are a great leader of people and an outstanding judge of character. You are demanding of those who work for you, often putting things in no uncertain terms: do it my way or don't do it at all!

At the same time, you don't hesitate to reward the faithful and hardworking employee. You are not a particularly tolerant leader; too much tolerance violates your sense of efficiency. You go directly after your goal with courage and tenacity.

You have a natural understanding of money, authority, and power. You are able to struggle consistently after your goal. Eventually power falls to you. Within you lies an innate balance between the higher and lower characteristics of man. Your challenge in life is to balance your higher ideals and your understanding of the hard realities of the earth.

Much effort will have to be put out and many ups and downs experienced before you reach the level of success you desire. Life will probably test you many times with obstacles that seem insurmountable. But in reality, these are merely opportunities for you to learn how to use power and authority in the face of difficulties, and to find out just how much power lies within you.

It is crucial for your success that you balance the material and the spiritual. You have chosen a path that requires balance between giving and taking, reward and punishment, action and reaction. Despite the obstacles on your path, you are a true survivor.

When focused exclusively on your desire for results and success, you can become stubborn and intolerant; you can be driven by excessive ambition, causing you to be exacting and without perspective.

Be careful of your alcohol consumption, a danger-zone for you. You can be a social drinker, mixing business with pleasure - a dangerous cocktail.

An excellent manager, organizer and administrator you have talents in many areas of life. Entrepreneurs, executives, bankers, brokers, negotiators, gamblers, coaches, collectors, heads of institutions, builders, art dealers, manufacturers, promoters, military officers, police detectives, smugglers, engineers, pilots or sea captains.

You have been entrusted with special gifts, the use or abuse of which has an immediate and often physical effect upon you and those around you! Use these gifts for the good of mankind and accept your own good fortune with gratitude. This is your rewarding stage in your evolution. Yours is a life time of harvest

thanks for all your input enumero123.  Your a really big help, and it looks as if my path is going to be an interesting one.  All that combined with the ever changing life path of 5... I'm in for quite a bumpy ride, no? haha.  oh and the age is not a cover up or anything, i am indeed 17 and just happen to be very interested in numerology at the moment.

thanks again!