Paralexia Mystery Cache

First, the reading lesson.

Paralexics suffer a mismatch between what is seen and what is read. Likewise, there can be a mismatch between what is meant and what is said. I am mildly paralexic (small word swaps, medium word anagramming, longer word middle-substitutions), but I have learned to compensate for it using a regimen of self-imposed reading therapy. However, most people readily have the ability to understand the plights of a paralexic, once they see the world through their eyes. Consider the 2 following sentences:

The ocean contains many types of exotic fish.

The canoe conjoins many typos or erotic food.

Here we see a few different things that can wrong for the paralexic. First, 'ocean' and 'canoe' are anagrams, and as a bonus, both deal with water. Another type of mistake is the middle-substitution. "contains" and "conjoins" are verbs with the same usage type. Because our eyes are trained to look at the spaces between words, longer words are read (by all) from the outsides in. Along the way, a paralexic may wrongly predict the word and in doing so never catch that it was wrong. This happens again with 'exotic' and 'erotic'. The most subtle swap here is swapping 'or' for 'of'. This kind of mistake is much more common when typing than when reading. Sometimes, in small words where there is no time to predict the middles, some of them are only glimpsed, which can lead to some small word pairs swapping. This happened again with 'fish' and 'food'. They are slightly longer and not usually susceptible to that kind of mistake, but being in the same potential concept category makes them cognitively closer and thus more susceptible.

Now, everyone actual has this capacity for reading. Usually, it works in our favors. Here's an example I found on the web:

I cdnuo'lt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

The whole Cambridge aspect of this is bogus, but it does prove the point quite well. Here, your brain is using the paralexia vehicle to map onto the correct spellings and meanings.

Learning to read is an incredibly powerful skill. Sometimes a paralexic needs to try to read something several times before the correct version is received (although some misreadings are quite amusing: "Judy was filled with excrement... oh, wait, with excitement" Oops.). I hope that this cache has raised some awareness for the difficulties (and wonders) that can be experienced in learning how to read.

Also, why here for this cache? The name of this place is a small paralexic jump away from what used to be here. Loew's & Lowe's. Yikes!

Now the puzzle:

Spekanig of waht use to be hree - I uesd to hvae a 2-prat ccahe at the smae sarttnig crodonaiets as tihs cahce. Of coruse, ntaralluy, taht cchae is lnog gnoe. Wlel, if you konw the cdoorintaes to prat 2 of the acirhevd chcae, you can go atefr tihs one. Mhgit I sgugset a ltilte cearufl raenidg of the htiosry of taht ccahe... Oh, and pay atettnoin to the nmae of the achrveid cchae too - it mghit hlep. Good lcuk!